The cargo train was hauling containers with computer equipment from Rotterdam to the German border.
Special trains will haul containers between the Norfolk docks and the new port, actually a land-locked railhead near the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The Ofoten Line is also part of the Northern East West Freight Corridor, which hauls containers from China and India to North America.
He picks up his truck and his assignments for the day at Deacon Transportation in Bayonne, one of more than 100 New Jersey trucking companies that pay contractors to haul containers.
The freight traffic is also frequent as the Millbrook Freightliner Terminal is behind the station, with frequent Freightliner Class 66s hauling containers to Leeds and Cardiff.
Trains may haul bulk material, intermodal containers, general freight or specialized freight in purpose-designed cars.
Low-loader or flat-bed trailers are used to haul containers, see containerization, in intermodal transport.
Her tales are reminiscent of Great Plains pioneer women in sod houses - living in an unfinished dirt house, hauling 40-pound containers of water, dashing to the outhouse in the dead of night.
In late October, an American shipping agent, Trans Marine Inc., negotiated with a Russian line to haul containers from Shanghai to Vostochny.
The ship hauls mostly 40-foot containers filled with sweaters, T-shirts, coats, shoes and other Chinese goods, to be sold in Russia, Romania, the Czech Republic and Poland.