BNSF greets largest container ship ever at Port of LA: goods destined for Texas, onward
December 29th, 2015
December 28, 2015 - TRA Newswire
At dawn on Dec. 26, 2015, the CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin, a brand new 18,000-TEU container ship, arrived at the Port of Los Angeles. It's the largest container ship ever to visit a U.S. port. And BNSF Railway was there, with a train ready to take on many of its containers and transport them inland.
It will take 10 BNSF trains to move its share of the cargo, more than 2,500 containers, to inland intermodal facilities including Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City and Memphis. From there the containers will continue by truck to their destinations.
A TEU is a twenty-foot equivalent unit, a term used to indicate a ship's cargo capacity. It refers to a 20'x8'x8' cargo container. The longer 40'x8'x8' cargo container equals two TEUs.
At dawn on Dec. 26, 2015, the CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin, a brand new 18,000-TEU container ship, arrived at the Port of Los Angeles. It's the largest container ship ever to visit a U.S. port. And BNSF Railway was there, with a train ready to take on many of its containers and transport them inland.
It will take 10 BNSF trains to move its share of the cargo, more than 2,500 containers, to inland intermodal facilities including Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City and Memphis. From there the containers will continue by truck to their destinations.
A TEU is a twenty-foot equivalent unit, a term used to indicate a ship's cargo capacity. It refers to a 20'x8'x8' cargo container. The longer 40'x8'x8' cargo container equals two TEUs.