Daily Sharing - Shipping Containers

What are the types of containers?
Ordinary containers (commonly known as "dry containers")
Refrigerated containers (commonly known as "freezers") can carry fresh fruits, food, and other items
Open top container
Frame container
Flat container
Ventilated container
Hanging container
Liquid tank container
Car container

What do large cabinets, small cabinets, and double backs refer to?
a. A large container usually refers to a 40 foot container, typically 40GP and 40HQ. 45 foot containers are generally considered as special containers.
b. A small cabinet usually refers to a 20 foot container, usually referring to a 20GP container.
c. Double back refers to two 20 foot small cabinets. For example, a trailer pulling two 20 foot small cabinets simultaneously; When lifting at the port, two 20 foot containers are lifted onto the ship at once.
3. What does LCL refer to? What about the whole box?
a. Less than Container Load refers to the operation of LCL (Less than Container Load) for small batches of goods with multiple shippers in a container.
b. Full Container Load refers to a container of goods from only one shipper or manufacturer, and a larger batch of goods that can fill one or more full containers is called FCL (Full Container Load), operated according to FCL (Full Container Load).
What are the common specifications of containers?

a. 40 foot high cabinet (40HC): 40 feet long, 9 feet 6 inches high; Approximately 12.192 meters in length, 2.9 meters in height, and 2.35 meters in width, it is typically loaded at around 68CBM.
b. 40 foot common cabinet (40GP): 40 feet long, 8 feet 6 inches high; Approximately 12.192 meters long, 2.6 meters high, and 2.35 meters wide, it is usually loaded with around 58CBM.
c. 20 foot common cabinet (20GP): 20 feet long, 8 feet 6 inches high; Approximately 6.096 meters in length, 2.6 meters in height, and 2.35 meters in width, it is typically loaded at around 28CBM.
d. 45 foot high cabinet (45HC): 45 feet long, 9 feet 6 inches high; Approximately 13.716 meters in length, 2.9 meters in height, and 2.35 meters in width, it is typically loaded at around 75CBM.
What is the difference between high cabinets and regular cabinets?
A high cabinet is 1 foot higher than a regular cabinet (one foot is equivalent to 30.44cm). Whether it is a high cabinet or a regular cabinet, the length and width are the same.
What does the self weight of the box refer to? Where is the heavy box?
Box weight: The weight of the box itself. The self weight of 20GP is about 1.7 tons, and the self weight of 40GP is about 3.4 tons.
Heavy box: refers to a box containing goods, opposite to an empty/lucky box.
What does an empty or lucky box refer to?
A box without cargo is called an empty box. In southern China, especially in Guangdong and Hong Kong, empty containers are usually called lucky containers because in Cantonese, empty containers and inauspicious containers have the same pronunciation, which is inauspicious. Therefore, in southern China, they are not called empty containers, but rather lucky containers. The so-called Tiji is still heavy, which means extracting empty boxes, pulling them for loading, and then returning the loaded heavy boxes.
8. What is a heavy box? Drop weight box?
Backload container: Refers to carrying heavy containers from the on-site station to the manufacturer or logistics warehouse for unloading (generally referring to imports).
Dropped container: Refers to the process of returning a heavy container to the yard after it has been loaded by the manufacturer or logistics warehouse (usually indicated at the entrance).
9. What do empty containers and empty containers refer to respectively?
Carrying empty containers: refers to carrying empty containers from the on-site station to the manufacturer or logistics warehouse for loading (usually indicated).
Empty container: Refers to the process of unloading goods from a manufacturer or logistics warehouse and dropping them at the station (usually referring to imports).
10. What box type does DC represent?
DC refers to dry containers, and containers such as 20GP, 40GP, and 40HQ are all dry containers.
11. What box type does OT represent?
OT, short for Open Top, refers to an open top cabinet, which is a cabinet without a top and only has a tent on top of the box.
12. What does a half open door mean?
A container with half open doors.
13. What does the bill of lading number refer to?
Usually, the freight forwarder gives you the number to carry the container, which may be the ship owner's bill of lading (MBL) number or the freight forwarder's bill of lading (HBL) number. Generally, it is necessary to retrieve empty or heavy containers based on the ship name/voyage and bill of lading number.
14. What does container number refer to?
Refers to the container number, which is globally unique and consists of four letters and seven digits. The first three letters are the container owner (shipping or leasing company) code, the fourth letter is U, the next six digits are the serial number, and the last digit is the verification code.
The container number is usually asked by the driver because the driver only knows the container number when they go to pick it up. The container number is used for customs declaration, document preparation, and warehouse receipt entry.
15. What does a lead seal refer to?
It refers to the number of the seal that locks the container tightly. The lead seal is usually provided by the shipping company and requires payment for purchase.