Deming Green Container Handling Terminal

A container port or container terminal is a facility where cargo containers are transshipped between different transport vehicles, for onward transportation. The transshipment may be between container ships and land vehicles, for example trains or trucks, in which case the terminal is described as a maritime container port.

Deming Green Container Handling Terminal

Alternatively, the transshipment may be between land vehicles, typically between train and truck, in which case the terminal is described as an inland container port.In November 1932, the first inland container port in the world was opened by the Pennsylvania Railroad company in Enola, Pennsylvania.Port Newark-Elizabeth on the Newark Bay in the Port of New York and New Jersey is considered the world’s first maritime container port.