There is a huge site right off a railroad hub where there are hundreds of cargo containers. I assume they are to be loaded onto trucks. How do they sort them and how do they know which container goes on which truck?
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Before they get delivered to the rail hub (or port), a freight forwarder will send the container details through to the depots system. This will include information such as the container number, the seal number, the container weight, its first port of call, final destination, and the cargo category (e.g. general goods, or temperature controlled, or wine, or hazardous, etc).
The trucking company will also book their vehicle in with a timeslot, and will let them know which container they’re delivering and which one they’re collecting.
So then it’s a matter of knowing which stack to put the incoming container on, based on its weight, cargo, and routing, and getting the outbound container ready for pick up at the right time. Usually they’ll have several collection bays operating at once, so a bunch of trucks can get their container at more or less the same time.
Behind all of this is a whole pile of conplicated software that ensures your vessels and railways have safe separation of hazardous goods, have even weight distribution, and have the containers that are all getting off at the same location stored together so they don’t need to waste movements lifting them off and on.
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