The skeleton trailer works great to replace the regular trailer. Why should it be shipped with the entire wheel set when it is not required and also gives rise to the fact that the trailer must be lifted by container cranes or special trucks. In addition, they require special wagons to be transported. In addition, the wagons must be marshalled into special terminals that are free from electrical wires to enable the trailers to be lifted off the special wagons.

This has led to intermodal transport with trailers only occurring in end-to-end traffic. In terms of cost, a transfer is very expensive and there are also a lot of overhead costs, which is why they can only occur in transports over 500 km, even though the transfer cost is subsidized by the state. 

Divide the trailer into a skeleton trailer and a container. 

Once the trailer has been divided into a skeleton trailer and a unit load, such as containers, it is possible to develop handling equipment that can make transfers under the existing electrical line. This eliminates the requirement for the train set to shunt down to special wire-free terminals. It is now possible to run in regular traffic and with fast simple terminals, the costs of transfers will drop dramatically and a much larger market will be interesting for intermodal transport.

On our page "The Ant Transfer Technology" a technology is presented that makes it possible to automatically transfer unit loads between train - terminal - distribution vehicle. This creates opportunities for simple, cheap and fast terminals that are also completely free of CO2 emissions. A nationwide network could create great potential for intermodal transport and also be very interesting when it comes to transport within NATO.

You can find more information on the system on our website "Transfer Technology Ant"