Inland port
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Inland ports are shipping, receiving and distribution centers designed to relieve the congestion in increasingly busy seaports.
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[edit] Overview
Handling cargo containers at spacious inland facilities can cut the time freighters spend in port and speed the flow of goods between ships and the land transportation system of trucks and trains.
The idea is to move the time-consuming sorting of containers inland, away from congested seaports. When a ship is delayed in port, it's not making money.
An inland port could also speed the flow of cargo between ships and major land transportation networks, which would carry goods to the rest of the country.
[edit] Modern Inland Ports
A modern Inland Port (capital letters) takes this process further by connecting the sea port with the inland port with high capacity canal or railway links, including customs and other services at the inland location, and make things clearer, include the words Inland Port in the name of the facility.
[edit] Other names
- Dry port
- Intermodal Hub
[edit] See also
[edit] Africa
- Boankra Inland Port (Under Construction) is is an intermodal terminal near Kumasi, Ghana [1]
[edit] Asia
[edit] Australia
- Parkes, Australia is a cross roads for north/south east/west rail routes and is being developed as an Inland Port. The Parkes hinterland is seen as an ideal site for warehousing that serves most of the country.
- Minto - inland port for Port Botany
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