What is a special shipping container?

Container transportation speeds up the flow of goods, reduces circulation costs, saves labor consumption in logistics, and completes the transportation production process quickly, with low consumption, high efficiency and high benefits, and delivers the goods to the destination to the consignee. It is a high-efficiency, high-benefit and high-quality transportation mode. Special container transportation has become an indispensable part of international container transportation due to its own characteristics.

What is a special container?

A special container is a container that is specially designed and equipped in terms of structure and equipment to meet the needs of special cargo transportation.

What are the types of special containers?

There are many types of containers due to the different types of goods they are suitable for, and the main types are as follows:

FLAT RACK CONTAINER:

This is a container without a top and wall, and the end wall can also be removed, leaving only the bottom and four corner columns to bear the cargo. If the four corner columns are removed, it can also be used as a platform container. This type of container is mainly used for long and large items, overweight items, light and bulky goods, heavy machinery, steel, steel pipes, bare equipment, etc. that are not suitable for loading into general cargo containers or open-top containers, and will produce concentrated loads. Heavy goods, oversized goods, goods that are not afraid of wind and rain, goods that need to be loaded from the top or side of the box, and goods that need to be fixed in the box.

OPEN TOP CONTAINER:

This is a container without a top or with an open top. When loading and unloading goods, a crane is needed to load or unload heavy goods from the top. After loading the goods, the top is covered with a waterproof tarpaulin to prevent damage to the goods. This special container is suitable for loading extra-high goods such as glass plates, steel products, plywood, mechanical equipment, heavy goods that can be fixed by the side walls, and goods that are difficult to load and unload from the door and must be loaded and unloaded from the top of the box.