rubber-tired gantry crane

Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy

by Christopher Mims  · 13 Sep 2021  · 385pp  · 112,842 words

yards of modern ports are like giant stacks of multicolored children’s blocks divided into neat piles, each with a purpose. Carried aloft by a rubber-tired gantry crane, or RTG, our container will be stacked on top of and then rest below others and moved multiple times during its brief stay in

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