Abstract: A low transport vehicle has a platform carried by a number of wheels arranged in a transverse row, hydraulic means being provided to raise and to lower the platform. In order to prevent a tilting of the cargo during voyage with the platform with respect to the wheels in raised position, the hydraulic system is arranged in such a manner that a ram operating an outward wheel in the row may be blocked-off from the system if the pressure in the system at the opposite end of the row falls below a predetermined value.

Abstract: A framework carrier adapted to move railway waggons outside a railway yard includes two first, longitudinal beams, each carrying a rail and two second, transverse beams adapted to co-operate with a transporting member, said transverse beams being adapted to locate the rails upon the carrier in alignment with the rails of the tracks, when the carrier is brought to rest against fixed stops at the track heads.

Abstract: General cargo must be stowed differently when being transported by ships, or by railway waggons and trucks, respectively. To reduce the time a ship is tied up in port, a transhipping station is provided, where work can proceed before the ship arrives and after the ship has left port. This station is arranged so it is available along one side to railway waggons carried by special transport devices, remotely from railway tracks, at a second side is available to cargo-bigflats, suited for cargo handling on board ships, and possibly also, along a third side, being available to road trucks.

Abstract: Means for transporting shipping containers from a quay to a ship includes a crane having a lifting yoke and an operator's cage at an elevated level, as well as a guiding device located at a lower level than said cage and being adapted to be positioned above a selected container for directing the yoke into engagement therewith.

Abstract: A ship comprising a hull in which vehicles can be readily loaded and unloaded from at least two ramps at about the same level, the ramps communicating with a cargo-carrying portion extending through two decks and comprising fully separated cargo volumes, in which straight blind alleys emanating from lobbies within the hull at opposite ends of the hull communicate with mutually inclined decks extending upwardly and downwardly forward-aft and aft-forward, respectively, and in communication with respective opposite lobbies.