Disclosed are apparatus, systems, and methods, including a ground transport drive container comprising an outer container having a cuboid shape and comprising a plurality of fittings for securing the outer container to another apparatus; and a drive wheel assembly. The drive wheel assembly comprises one or more wheels and a deployment mechanism secured to the one or more wheels. An actuating member actuates the drive wheel assembly between a stowed configuration and one or more deployed configurations. In the stowed configuration, the drive wheel assembly is housed entirely within the outer container. In the one or more deployed configurations, the drive wheel assembly extends from the outer container.

A transport platform for loading, conveying, and storing elongated loads which are cut to length, in particular round wood, includes a support structure with a base assembly which is made of longitudinal and transverse supports. A base-side corner fitting is provided on each of the four corner regions of the base assembly, and the transport platform can be locked on a semi-trailer contour, for example of a semitrailer of a truck or another transportation device, by the corner fitting. The base assembly additionally has a vertical support on each of the four corner regions. The vertical support terminates with an upper corner fitting, to which an additional transport platform stacked thereon can be locked or into which a container stacker for loading the transport platform engages.

A collapsible intermodal container includes first and second opposing parallel side walls, and an upper wall and a lower wall. The container has an erected configuration in which the upper wall extends from an upper end portion of the first side wall to an upper end portion of the second side wall, and the lower wall extends from a lower end portion of the second side wall to a lower end portion of the first side wall. In a collapsed configuration, the upper wall extends downwardly from the upper end portion of the first side wall to the lower end portion of the first side wall, and the lower wall extends upwardly from the lower end portion of the second side wall to the upper end portion of the second side wall. Front and rear end assemblies close front and rear ends of the container in the erected configuration and are engageable with the second side wall to secure the first side wall with respect to the second side wall. In the collapsed configuration, the front and rear end assemblies are engageable with at least a further collapsible intermodal container to secure the first side wall with respect to the further collapsible intermodal container.

Item mortality, such as failure rates and expected remaining lifespan, may be determined based on tracked environmental conditions during transit, such as vibration, temperature, and other conditions. For complex items, multiple different internal components may have varying degrees of susceptibility to damage from unfavorable conditions, with each of the components able to individually cause a failure of the entire item. Thus, the specific set of internal components may drive item mortality prediction. Sensors may be located in shipping containers that share data collected throughout the supply chain, using a blockchain, to increase confidence in the integrity of the data. The use of mortality models generated with anonymized component or process data may enable manufacturers to protect trade secrets, such as the specific components or manufacturing processes used, even while leveraging the manufacturer's detailed knowledge of an item.

A modular hopper assembly is provided and includes a plurality of pre-fabricated upper hopper modular units, a plurality of pre-fabricated middle hopper modular units, a plurality of pre-fabricated lower hopper modular units and a plurality of support members configured as a base, where the upper hopper modular units, the middle hopper modular units and the lower hopper modular units are each assembled, and then the assembled upper hopper modular units, the assembled middle hopper modular units and the assembled lower hopper modular units are connected together to form a hopper, where the hopper is mounted on the base.

A telescoping container system with a first container and a second container that is configured to slide into and out of the second container. The invention includes first, second and third elongated gaskets that are configured to create various seals between the first and second containers and a wiper seal that creates a further seal between the top front rail of the first container and the top panel of the second container. The invention includes two non-pivoting guide wheels situated at the top of the rear end of the second container and two pivoting guide wheel assemblies situated on wings that extend inwardly front the front corner posts of the first container. The pivoting guide wheel assembly allows the invention to seal in each direction by pivoting backward and forward.

A shipping container can be extended in height when not in transit and is capable of being transported in carriers having limited cargo capacity such as cargo military support helicopters. There is further provided a collapsible portable containerized shelter which can be extended in height when not in transit and which is capable of being transported in carriers having limited cargo capacity such as cargo military support helicopters.

A bracket system creates a cost-effective way to build large clear spans in shipping container structures. The system efficiently joins four shipping containers along the longitudinal corner edges, with the containers set adjacent one another, to create a compound beam made by combining or coupling both top rails of the two lower containers and bottom rails of the top containers. A single T-bracket mounts onto pre-installed angle brackets on the raised containers, and a fastener is set through the lower plate to the T-bar joining the lower containers. The bracket system may be iterative and used to combine multiple pairs, or single, containers on top of or beside the initial set.

Rapidly deployable, immediately activated Mobile Mission Kits are highly flexible armored protective apparatuses that can be used in countless environments and against various threat types and levels to protect people, infrastructure and equipment while giving end users unit dominance advantages through the ability to establish an extended and hardened perimeter with checkpoint options by interconnecting operative (Mobile Mission Kit) units that interlock, an internal structural mission cage that can accommodate necessary tactical gear, weapons, equipment and supplies for missions or emergency responses, offensive capabilities, and stopping intrusion efforts from adversarial groups or entities. The Mobile Mission Kit does not require assembly or construction to activate the protective barrier upon arrival, and would not require any tools or equipment to active barrier, interconnect units, deactivation, or prepare for extraction

A container includes: an upper container part constituting an upper half of a container body having a horizontally elongate rectangular parallelepiped shape; a lower container part constituting a lower half of the container body; four posts disposed at the four corners of the container body; and hinges 20 rotatably retaining the posts at the four corners of at least one of the upper container part or the lower container part. The container body can be transformed between a first state in which the upper container part is retained at a first height with respect to the lower container part and a second state in which the container body is retained at a second height that is lower than the first height. In the second state, the posts are rotated inward in the lengthwise direction of the container body by the hinges.