An intermodal container handling system for collapsing a collapsible intermodal container including a pair of opposing side walls each hingedly connected to a roof and a floor respectively, wherein said walls remain substantially parallel to one another whilst the collapsible container is collapsed from an expanded configuration to a collapsed configuration, said handling system comprising: a docking assembly adapted for docking of the collapsible intermodal container in the expanded configuration; a collapsing assembly operatively coupled to the docking assembly via a transit assembly adapted to releasably engage the docked collapsible container to facilitate movement of said collapsible container between the docking assembly and the collapsing assembly; a folding sub-assembly associated with the collapsing assembly, said folding sub-assembly adapted for releasable engagement with a first of the pair of opposing side walls wherein movement of the folding sub-assembly and the associated first side wall relative to a second of the opposing side walls collapses said container between the expanded configuration and the collapsed configuration; a stacking assembly operatively coupled to the collapsing assembly via the transit assembly adapted to facilitate movement of the container between the collapsing assembly and the stacking assembly for stacking in a vertical orientation with a further collapsible intermodal container in a collapsed configuration and vertical orientation.