Patent ID: 8651793

Claim:
A system for transferring standard cargo holders between rail and road, the system comprising: a rail transfer zone having a railway track and rail cars moving on said railway track to transport standard cargo holders; handling equipment for loading and unloading the standard cargo holders onto or off of the rail cars in said rail transfer zone to a transfer zone adjacent to said railway track, the handling equipment being a gantry crane comprising: a crane girder; a crane trolley movable along the crane girder in a trolley track direction; a rigid mast guided on the crane trolley, the mast having a lower end portion and extending in a lifting and lowering direction; at least one lifting gear comprising motor-rotated cable drums and cables associated therewith, the lifting gear attached to the crane trolley, and the cables configured to move the mast in the lifting and lowering direction; and a load take-up device for the standard cargo holders attached at a lower end portion of the mast; a driving zone having driverless transport vehicles bringing or picking up the standard cargo holders to or from the handling equipment, the driving zone located adjacent to the handling equipment; a loading and unloading zone for inward or outward transport of the standard cargo holders, the loading and unloading zone located adjacent to the driving zone; a cargo holder storage site adjacent to the loading and unloading zone with a stacking device comprising a gantry crane for transporting the standard cargo holders between the loading and unloading zone and the cargo holder storage site; and a road transfer zone for loading the standard cargo holders onto trucks and unloading the standard cargo holders off of trucks, the road transfer zone adjoining the cargo holder storage site, wherein the driverless transport vehicles are each equipped with a lifting platform, and wherein supporting frames are positioned in the loading and unloading zone, for placing onto or picking up the standard cargo holders from the supporting frames with the lifting platform of the driverless transport vehicles.