A freight forwarder sending Danish furniture to Vienna might drive containers by truck to a rail terminal, transfer them to rail cars, and reload them onto a truck at the destination – without ever opening the container.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermodal_freight_transport
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