Definition: Freight container

Transport

Article of transport equipment:

1. of a permanent nature and accordingly strong enough to be suitable for repeated use;

2. specially designed to facilitate the carriage of goods by one or more modes of transport, without intermediate reloading;

3. fitted with devices permitting its ready handling, particularly its transfer from one mode of transport to
another;

4. so designed as to be easy to fill and empty;

5. having a length of 20 feet or more. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:141:0029:0047:EN:PDF Commission Decision of 4 March 2005 implementing Council Directive 95/64/EC