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Rotterdam based UNIT45 B.V. has introduced a new diesel-electric, 45ft high-cube, palletwide reefer container developed specifically....

Rotterdam based UNIT45 B.V. is now offering automotive logistics companies in Europe a range of 45ft high-cube containers fitted with the Trans-Rak car transport system. Previously, Trans-Raks have only been installed...

A double-stack diesel-electric reefer, a car-, a bulk-, a garment- a open top and a 4-doors container: as from now they are all available as a 45ft pallet wide high cube. This is all being possible thanks to Unit45 who...

Rotterdam based reefer box designer UNIT45 has recently introduced a new diesel-electric 45ft high-cube container, which is capable of accommodating 33 pallets. Of the 400 reefer units the company expects to sell this year, the new design will...

Shortsea shipping lines and intermodal operators usually consider road transport operators their main competitors. One advantage often claimed for trailers is that most offer side access, enabling pallets to be loaded and unloaded by forklift trucks operating at ground level, without the need for raised loading bays or ramps. Side access also provides...

There is currently discussion as to whether 45ft containers as used by deepsea lines should be given some form of dispensation allowing them to be transported on Europe’s roads after 1 January 2007. Although such containers built since 1996 have not been legal in most European Union (EU) countries for ten years, the relevant laws have not been enforced. Now though, effective next year, the ban will cover all 45ft containers...

Reports appearing recently in the press have suggested that “as of 1 January, 2007, it will be illegal to transport 45ft palletwide containers by road in the European Union (EU)”. In the opinion of UNIT45 and, we are sure, in the opinion of all leading European intermodal and shortsea shipping companies,....

The 45ft container is breaking through as a standard in the European intermodal transport. This appeared from detailed transshipment figures over 2005 from Havenbedrijf Rotterdam (Port of Rotterdam). UNIT45 B.V., the biggest supplier of 45ft containers,...

When first introduced, the 45ft deepsea container was intended for use in the transpacific trades. However, such containers are now widely used in the trades linking Europe with Asia and North America. What is not widely appreciated is that when they are transported on roads within the EU, most of these containers are being moved illegally. And with effect from 1 January 2007,....

Unprecedented demand for 45ft palletwide containers has prompted UNIT45 B.V., the Dutch 45ft container specialist, to increase the size of its orderbook for new containers intended for its rental fleet. Having said six months ago that...

For the Dutch 45ft container specialist UNIT45, ITL 2005 could not be happening in a better place. The company is seeing increasing interest in...

UNIT45 BV, the Dutch 45ft container specialist, is rapidly expanding its leasing fleet. From zero in April 2003, it will pass the 1,000 mark in June 2005 with its latest delivery of newbuild containers from China and is now adding approximately 100 containers every month. According to Managing Director Jan Koolen....