Container Definition - MilitaryDictionary.org

container

1.) An article of transport equipment that meets American National Standards Institute/International Organization for Standardization standards that is designed to facilitate and optimize the carriage of goods by one or more modes of transportation without intermediate handling of the contents.

See Also:

• related container management
• related Service-unique container
• related Department of Defense container system
• related military specification container
• related common-use container
• related containership
• related component-owned container

In the United States, military vocabulary is standardized by the Department of Defence. These terms are used by the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.

Term Classification: logistics