An open sided, open top cargo container for highway, railroad or ocean transport of cargo, the container being adapted to have cargo secured thereto and also covered as necessary to be held secure and protected from the rigors of travel and from the elements. The container is adapted to be transferred with its load from one vehicle to another, as from a truck trailer to an ocean going ship. The cargo container comprises a main centrally located longitudinal load carrying beam, extending the full length and reaching the full height of the cargo container. A load carrying framework is cantilevered laterally outwardly in opposing directions from the lower portion of the main beam. There are two end walls at opposite ends of the main beam, and a pair of laterally spaced longitudinal stiffening members for the cantilevered framework. The cargo load is placed on the lower framework between the end walls with the vertical loads from the cargo being transferred through the cantilevered framework into the main center beam. The vertical web portion of the main center beam both provides a centering function to maintain the load in proper position, and interconnects the widely spaced upper and lower flange portions of the main center beam in load bearing relationship.
A method and an ocean-going vessel are disclosed for more effectively incinerating hazardous liquid wastes at sea. Intermodal shipping tank containers are filled at waste generation sites; transported to dockside and loaded above decks on an incinerator ship; taken out to sea and incinerated in horizontal, liquid burning type incinerators so that the effluents emerge horizontally. Wastes flow by gravity from containers into staging sumps located below decks, and then pumped to incinerator. Pollution abatement tanks, also below decks, collect spilled waste from containers, as well as overflow from staging sumps. Material collected in abatement tanks is pumped into staging sump, and pumped to incinerator. Fuel oil may be introduced into sumps for fueling incinerators to maintain incinerator operation when there is insufficient supply of waste. Effluents are sea-water scrubbed for cooling to eliminate thermal lift and carried promptly into sea.
