5 minutes to konw the 20-practical containers knowledge

5 minutes to konw the 20-practical containers knowledge

Sunny wordwide logistics is a professional freight forwarder with a history of 20 years of freight forwarding. There are often a lot of charges about containers in the shipping quotation. You may not know it. Next, I will introduce some knowledge about containers to make you more aware of the container and better. Send your goods safely.

1. What does a large cabinet, a small cabinet, and a double back mean? Large cabinets generally refer to 40-foot containers, usually 40 GP and 40 HQ. A 45-foot container is generally considered to be a special cabinet. A small cabinet generally refers to a 20-foot container, usually 20 GP. The double back refers to two small 20-foot cabinets. For example, a trailer pulls two 20-foot cabinets at the same time. When the port is hoisted, two 20-foot containers are hoisted to the ship at one time.
2. What does LCL and FCL mean? Less than Container Load refers to the goods in a container with multiple cargo owners. Small quantities of goods that are not full of a full container are LCL goods, which are operated according to LCL-LCL. Full Container Load refers to the cargo of only one owner or manufacturer in a container. Large batches of goods that can be filled with one or more full boxes are full container goods and are operated in full container (FCL-FCL).

3. What are the common specifications for containers?

20-foot cabinet (20GP): 20 feet long, 8 feet 6 inches high, about 6.096 meters long, 2.6 meters high, 2.35 meters wide.

40-foot cabinet (40GP): 40 feet long, 8 feet 6 inches high, about 12.192 meters long, 2.6 meters high, 2.35 meters wide.

40-foot high cabinet (40HC): 40 feet long, 9 feet 6 inches high, about 12.192 meters long, 2.9 meters high, 2.35 meters wide.

45-foot high cabinet (45HC): 45 feet long, 9 feet 6 inches high, approximately 13.716 meters long, 2.9 meters high, 2.35 meters wide.

If the goods are too long, extra wide, then special cabinets will be used. The charges for special cabinets will be much higher than those for ordinary cabinets.

4. What is the difference between a high cabinet and a cabinet?

The high cabinet is 1 foot taller than the cabinet (1 foot equals 30.44 cm) and has the same length and width.

5. What is the weight of the box and the heavy box?

The weight of the box is the weight of the box itself. The weight of 20GP is about 1.7 tons, and the weight of 40GP is about 3.4 tons.

A heavy box is a box containing goods, as opposed to an empty box. Learn about 20 practical container knowledge in 5 minutes!

6. What is empty box and box?
Boxes that are not loaded are called empty boxes. In southern China, especially in Guangdong and Hong Kong, empty boxes are often called jigsaw boxes. Because in Cantonese, empty and fierce, unlucky. The so-called Tiji is also heavy, that is, after extracting the empty box, pull the loading, and then return the heavy box filled with the goods.

7. What is the weight box and the weight box?

Back heavy box refers to the heavy box at the station, to the factory or logistics warehouse unloading (generally refers to the import). The heavy box refers to the loading of goods in the factory or logistics warehouse, and the heavy box is returned to the station (generally referred to as the exit).

8. What is the empty box and the empty box?

The back empty box refers to the empty box at the station, and is loaded into the factory or logistics warehouse (generally referred to as the exit). The empty box refers to the unloading of the goods at the manufacturer or the logistics warehouse, and the empty box at the station (generally referred to as the import).

9. What does DC mean?

DC refers to dry containers (Dry Container), 20GP, 40GP, 40HQ, etc. are all dry containers.

10. What does OT mean?

OT is the abbreviation of Open Top, which refers to the open top cabinet, that is, there is no cabinet with only one tent at the top of the box. Open top cabinet

11. What is the bill of lading number?

Usually the number of the freight forwarder, which may be the single number of the shipowner (MBL), or the number of the freight forwarder (HBL), generally according to the name of the ship/voyage and the bill of lading to back the box, that is, the empty box Or heavy boxes.

12. What is the box number and cabinet number?

Refers to the number of the container. This number is globally unique and consists of four letters and seven digits. The first three letters are the box owner (ship company or charter company) code, the fourth letter is U, and the next six digits are serial numbers, and finally One number is the check code. When you declare, order, and enter the manifest, you must use the box number.

13. What is the seal number?

Refers to the number of the seal that locks the container door. The seal is generally provided by the shipping company and needs to be paid for, usually 80-120 yuan.

14. What does the reverse box mean?

Refers to pulling the box from this station to another station, or not taking the box from top to bottom, but moving the box above and extracting the box underneath. This is more likely to occur when specifying the box number or customs inspection.

15. What does a container yard mean?

Usually refers to the place where the container is stacked and managed near the dock or near the dock. The driver's back box is usually going to the station.

16. What is the general content on the bill of lading?

The contents of the bill of lading generally include bill of lading number, ship name voyage, box weight, cargo description, number of pieces, gross weight, volume, number of boxes, issuer and signature.
17. What is boxing and unboxing?

Loading is carrying empty boxes to load goods. Unloading is the back-loading of the box to the factory to unload.

18. What does it mean to return to return?

It means pulling the goods, pulling the goods back, not driving.

19. What is the loss box fee?

Refers to the cost of the damaged box after the imported box is unloaded.

20. What is the washing fee?

Refers to the cost of washing the cabinet if it is found to be dirty.

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