Container is a component tool that can carry packaged or unpackaged goods for transportation and is easy to load and unload with mechanical equipment. The success of containers lies in the standardization of their products and the entire transportation system established by them. It can standardize a behemoth with a load of dozens of tons, and gradually realize a logistics system that matches ships, ports, routes, roads, transfer stations, bridges, tunnels, and multimodal transport around the world on this basis. It can be regarded as one of the great miracles created by mankind in history.
Practical container knowledge inventory:
1. What do large container, small container and double container mean?
(1) Large container generally refers to a 40-foot container, usually 40GP and 40HQ. 45-foot container is usually considered a special container.
(2) Small container generally refers to a 20-foot container, usually 20GP.
(3) Double container refers to two 20-foot small containers. For example, a trailer pulls two 20-foot small containers at the same time; when lifting at the port, two 20-foot containers are lifted onto the ship at one time.
2. What does LCL mean? What about FCL?
(1) LCL (Less than Container Load) refers to the goods of multiple shippers in a container. Small batches of goods that cannot fill a full container are LCL cargo, which is handled according to LCL-LCL.
(2) Full Container Load (FCL) refers to a container that contains goods from only one consignor or manufacturer. A larger quantity of goods that can fill one or more full containers is called a full container load and is handled according to the full container load (FCL-FCL) method.
3. What are the common specifications of containers?
(1) 40-foot high cabinet (40HC): 40 feet long, 9 feet 6 inches high; approximately 12.192 meters long, 2.9 meters high, 2.35 meters wide, generally loaded with about 68 CBM.
(2) 40-foot general cabinet (40GP): 40 feet long, 8 feet 6 inches high; approximately 12.192 meters long, 2.6 meters high, 2.35 meters wide, generally loaded with about 58 CBM.
(3) 20-foot general cabinet (20GP): 20 feet long, 8 feet 6 inches high; approximately 6.096 meters long, 2.6 meters high, 2.35 meters wide, generally loaded with about 28 CBM.
(4) 45-foot high cabinet (45HC): 45 feet long and 9 feet 6 inches high; approximately 13.716 meters long, 2.9 meters high, and 2.35 meters wide, usually loading about 75 CBM.
4. What is the difference between a tall container and a standard container?
A tall container is 1 foot higher than a standard container (one foot is equal to 30.44 cm). Whether it is a tall container or a standard container, the length and width are the same.
5. What is the deadweight of the container? What about a heavy container?
(1) Deadweight of the container: the weight of the container itself. The deadweight of a 20GP container is about 1.7 tons, and the deadweight of a 40GP container is about 3.4 tons.
(2) Heavy container: refers to a container that is loaded with goods, as opposed to an empty container or a lucky container.
6. What type of container does DC stand for?
DC refers to dry container, 20GP, 40GP, 40HQ and other containers are dry containers.
7. What type of container does OT stand for?
OT is the abbreviation of Open Top, which means an open top container, that is, a container with no top but only a tent on the top of the box.
8. What does half-open door mean?
A container with half-open door.
