locant. (chemistry). The portion of a chemical name, usually a number or a letter, that designates the position of an atom or group of atoms in a formula unit. 1  Facebook. 2  Twitter.
A back-to-back cargo movement is generally understood as the transfer of loose goods from one truck to another---in its literal form, positioning two trucks with their backs to one another. Primitive variants involve labor-intensive handling and placement of cargo on the ground during the transfer.t is, however, the hallmark of cargo transfer at every crossing between Israel and the Palestinian areas as well as at a number of checkpoints inside the West Bank. Even the new border terminals under development by the Government of Israel envision variants of this type of back to back system.
Freight transportation is the process of conveying different types of goods from one point to another using a variety of transport modes. The transport of freight can involve road solutions, air deliveries and even the use of waterways to move the freight from a point of origin to a destination. second land freight solution is the use of rail freight transport. This solution involves the use of railways to move goods. Freight cars or detachable containers are loaded with the goods, then moved through a network or railways until arriving at their destination.