Concord sunset.

The setting sun backlights one of Concord's two new container cranes A container crane (also known as a portainer, container handling gantry crane, quay crane, ship-to-shore crane, ship-to-shore gantry crane or a STS crane . The $15 million cranes have been installed at the 834th Transportation Battalion to assist surge 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 shipments. MTMC MTMC Military Traffic Management Command (US DoD)
MTMC Mount Marty College
MTMC Micros-to-Mainframes, Inc. (stock symbol)
MTMC Middle Tennessee Medical Center (Murfreesboro, TN) Began operational control at Concord in October 1999. Photo courtesy of U.S. Navy Crane Center

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Title Annotation:	installation of new container cranes at 834th Transportation Battalion
Publication:	Translog
Article Type:	Brief Article
Geographic Code:	1USA
Date:	Mar 1, 2001
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