950th Transportation Co. provides flexible movement options.The four trains that carried redeploying Army equipment from Kosovo followed a familiar railroad railroad or railway, form of transportation most commonly consisting of steel rails, called tracks, on which freight cars, passenger cars, and other rolling stock are drawn by one locomotive or more. route, but arrived at an unfamiliar destination. Normally, vehicles are moved to the port of Bremerhaven, Germany, for transshipment Transshipment The passing goods from one ocean vessel to another. . However, 231 pieces of 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) cargo traveled to Nordenham across the Weser River Weser River River, western Germany. Formed by the union of the Fulda and Werra rivers at Münden, it flows northward into the North Sea through a large estuary. It is 273 mi (440 km) long. There are several hydroelectric dams on the Weser, and it is linked with numerous canals. from Bremerhaven. They were loaded Sept. 16 aboard the M/V M/V Motor Vehicles M/V Motor Vessel M/V Merchant Vessel Maersk Alaska. It was the first time in five years that a ship has loaded vehicles at Nordenham, an ammunition port, said Maj. Thomas Ariail, Commander of the 950th Transportation Co., Bremerhaven. The loading took place at Nordenham instead of Bremerhaven, said Ariail, because the Maersk Alaska carried a load of containerized con·tain·er·ize v.tr. con·tain·er·ized, con·tain·er·iz·ing, con·tain·er·iz·es 1. To package (cargo) in large standardized containers for efficient shipping and handling. 2. ammunition from Kuwait. "It is always a pleasure to serve our customers and show our capabilities and flexibility," said Ariail. The last time a ship loaded vehicles in Nordenham was the M/V American Condor in November 1995. |
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