Paper mills use intermodals for shipping and storage. They use them to hold wood chips which are used to make the paper. After the wood chips arrive they will remain in the intermodal container that they arrived in.

Great article in Wired Magazine on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) internal economics. Worth a read for those who wish to learn what Googlenomics is. But hidden in the end of the article, we found an interesting idea for solving current gluts in autos or housing.