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container-on-flatcar

Also known as: COFC

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intermodal freight transport

  • high-speed train
    In railroad: Development

    …European railroads concentrated initially on container-on-flatcar (COFC) intermodal systems. A few offered a range of small containers of their own design for internal traffic, but until the 1980s domestic as well as deep-sea COFC in Europe was dominated by the standard sizes of maritime containers. In the 1980s an increasing…

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