THE GEOGRAPHY OF TRANSPORT SYSTEMS
Photo: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue.
Container Waiting to be Loaded, APL DC - Shenzhen
All the shipments that have been received and sorted are consolidated in containers (a 40 footer in this case), or batches of containers. This is the main purpose of the DC; the opposite of its counterparts in North American and Western Europe where freight shipments are decomposed in LTL batches. Once loaded, the container will be carried to the nearby port of Yantian.