Root Canal
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Contain Your Excitement
Chugging Along
Portpourri
100
The chamberlike facility constructed in a canal between two different waterways.
What is a lock?
100
Cars can drive on and off of the deck of this transoceanic vessel.
What is a RO-RO?
100
TOFC stands for this.
What is Trailer On Flat Car?
100
These rail cars handle fluids, from edibles to petroleum products and acids.
What are tankers?
100
This is the largest port in the United States.
What is Long Beach, CA?
200
This canal is being expanded to accomodate the mega- ships currently being built in Denmark.
What is the Panama Canal?
200
Vessel used to transport very heavy loads of cargo, mostly on inland waterways.
What is a barge?
200
Carrying truck trailers on the back of railroad cars.
What is piggybacking?
200
This is used to handle dry freight and packaged goods.
What are boxcars?
200
This is the largest port in the world.
What is Hong Kong?
300
This canal connects the Persian Gulf and the Mediterreanean Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
300
Type of vessel where oil or fluids are shipped.
What are tankers?
300
COFC stands for this.
What is Container on Flat Car?
300
The railroad's catch all, it can handle anything a hopper can, as well as many types of flat car load.
What is a Gondola?
300
Type of crane used to load/unload containerships at ports.
What is a gantry crane?
400
This country started the construction of the Panama Canal.
What was France?
400
Vessels that move people and vehicles across narrow or small bodies of water.
What are ferries?
400
This is the most efficient method of handling cargo.
What is containerization?
400
Is made to haul loose, granular dry goods and loaded from the top, and unloaded from the bottom.
What are Hoppers?
400
This government department oversees U.S. port secruity.
What is the department of Homeland Security?
500
These codes are at the root of all commodities being moved across the country.
What are the STCC codes?
500
Boat designed to pull vessels on waterways.
What are Tugboats?
500
TEU's & FEU's typically make transoceanic journeys aboard this type of vessel.
What is a conatinership?
500
These rail cars are slatted for ventilation. They carry livestock, from steers to sheep to hogs.
What are stock cars?
500
The weight of the water an object pushes aside.
What is buoyancy?
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