Cargo facts for kids
In economics, cargo or freight are goods or produce being conveyed – generally for commercial gain – by ship, boat, or aircraft, although the term is now often extended to cover all types of freight, including that carried by train, van, truck, or intermodal container. The term cargo is also used in case of goods in the cold-chain, because the perishable inventory is always in transit towards a final end-use, even when it is held in cold storage or other similar climate-controlled facility.
Multi-modal container units, designed as reusable carriers to facilitate unit load handling of the goods contained, are also referred to as cargo, specially by shipping lines and logistics operators. Similarly, aircraft ULD boxes are also documented as cargo, with associated packing list of the items contained within. When empty containers are shipped each unit is documented as a cargo and when goods are stored within, the contents are termed as containerised cargo.
The noun is used as not countable; people will talk about some freight. Today, goods other than bulk cargo are usually packed in shipping containers, which are carried. A place which loads or unloads cargo is usually called a cargo terminal.
Images for kids
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Very small freight transporter—a cargo tricycle
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Container ship at the Port of Helsinki in Finland
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Cargolux Boeing 747-400F with the nose loading door open
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Boeing 777 freighter of Emirates arrives at London Heathrow Airport (2015).
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P&O Nedlloyd intermodal container in a tiphook intermodal freight well wagon at Banbury station. England, (2001)
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An articulated double-stack well car owned by the TTX Company. The 53 ft (16.15 m) capacity car is a Gunderson Maxi-IV.
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Application in container
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Polyester strapping and dunnage bag
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Polyester lashing
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Bronze Age amphorae from shipwrecks near Bodrum, Turkey, with rack and roping device illustrating how they might have been kept from shifting
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See also
In Spanish: Carga (transporte) para niños
