Traduction de «Intermodal transport unit » (Anglais → Français) :

two- or three-axle motor vehicle with two or three-axle semi-trailer carrying, in intermodal transport, one or more intermodal transport units, for a total maximum length of 45 feet : 44 tonnes

Article 1(1) of Council Directive 2001/23/EC of 12 March 2001 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the safeguarding of employees’ rights in the event of transfers of undertakings, businesses or parts of undertakings or businesses must be interpreted as meaning that the scope of that directive covers a situation in which a public undertaking, responsible for the economic activity of handling intermodal transport units, entrusts, by a public service operating agreement, the performance of that activity to another undertaking, providing to the latter undertaking the necessary facilities and equipment, which it o ...[+++]wns, and subsequently decides to terminate that agreement without taking over the employees of the latter undertaking, on the ground that it will henceforth perform that activity itself with its own staff.

There are no detailed breakdowns of, for example: country of embarkation/loading country, and country of disembarkation/unloading country; goods transported in intermodal transport units, by type of transport and by type of transport unit; goods transported, by category of dangerous goods; and the number of loaded intermodal transport units carried, by type of transport and by type of transport unit.

“freight” means, for the purpose of the calculation of “tonne-kilometre” shifted off the road, the goods transported, the intermodal transport unit plus the road vehicle, including empty intermodal transport units and empty road vehicles, in the event that these are shifted off the road’.

N. whereas the handling of loads (intermodal transport units - ITUs) requires investment to identify and allot suitably equipped areas, reutilise logistical rail platforms which have generally been discarded, employ specialised machinery for handling ITUs, build rolling stock and specialised carriers, and train staff, so as to bring down friction costs,

In order to facilitate transhipment between modes and reflect technological developments, the proposal for a directive on Intermodal Loading Units[14] should be amended, to increase the competitiveness of intermodal freight transport.