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Rather than thinking of domestic and international containers think of them as marine and NAFTA containers. The marine containers are made of steel because they are stacked much higher than the domestic containers due to the depth of the holds in container ships and therefore have to support more weight. Since it is very expensive to change the configuration of a ocean vessel and the road height, length and weight constraints overseas are more limiting the 53' container has not caught on for marine use. The 53' containers basically travel all over North America however containers owned by CN and CP generally stay in Canada on domestic use. For containerized freight to the US or Mexico from Canada the containers are usually NACS, EMPU's or Pacer Stacktrains rather than railroad containers because the railroads in the US have abandoned or been forced to abandon the retail container trade and only deal in the wholesale trade with Intermodal Marketing Companies (IMC's) such as Pacer, Hub, Multimodal and companies such as Schneider, JB Hunt and UPS. The NACS and EMPU fleets are funded or contributed by the participating railroads including CN and CP. <br />If other people know anymore about this let us know.
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