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Wednesday 5 December 2007

Dimensions of containers

Brief characteristics of container types:

  • Dry freight container - Designed for general cargo, extra equipment like hanger beams, extra high payload & extra door-width versions are available. Bull rings and lashing bars for added security.
  • Reefer container - Suitable for sensitive or refrigerated cargoes. Facilities include controlled atmosphere, humidity control and modern dataloggers. Super Freezer containers can freeze your cargo up to -60 С.
  • Flat Rack container - Special equipment for heavy cargo that needs special attention. Suitable for top or side loading.
  • Artificial Tweendeck - Used for out of ordinary container stowage because of its weight or size.
  • Open Top container - Designed for over-sized cargo. Equipeed with Removable roof bows & tarpaulin covers.
  • Open Side/Open Top container - Designed for easy stuffing and stripping. Removable side grating, top rails, roof bows and door headers. Effective ventilation.

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The Intermodal Container

The most common container sizes used in international commerce are 20 ft, , 28 ft, 40 ft, and 48 ft. Other sizes are 10 ft (used primarily in Europe and by the military services), 24 ft, 44 ft, 45 ft, 46 ft, 53 ft--and probably others I have not yet heard of. As of 2007, the most common containers used in international commerce were 20 and 40 ft, with some 48 ft units.

(Why some of the odd sizes? They are multiples of the cargo pallets on which most goods are loaded into containers. There are also trailer length restrictions in many areas.)

The typical container height is 8 ft 6 inches. So-called high-cube containers are 9 ft 6 in. Some containers of less than 8 ft height are also used for triple-stack shipment of automobiles. (These containers can be triple-stacked on rail cars or double stacked on highway chassis. There are also half-height containers of about four feet for some special-purpose applications.) For information on the relatively new COLTainer® coal containers, see the Recent Developments section at the end.

The standard width of containers used in international commerce is 8 ft (96 inches).

So-called domestic containers, used only for land transport (rail or road) are 53 ft long and 102 inches wide--six inches wider than standard ISO containers. These domestic containers are built to lighter standards, as they are not designed to be exposed to the elements atop a ship at sea. For more about 102-inch wide containers, see the following section.

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Super rack container


Supper rack container is design to carry more over dimension cargoes

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Container picture 2


Container picture 2

Tuesday 4 December 2007

Container picture 1


Container picture 1

Guide to Container Codes

Here is a guide to the owner of the shipping container.
The prefix can be found on the shipping container before the container number

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THE INTERNATIONAL IDENTIFICATION CODES OF CONTAINER OWNERS

1- PRESENTATION OF THE BIC CODES*

*updated 2002 version: the additions or modifications are shown in italics in the text hereafter

THE INTERNATIONAL IDENTIFICATION CODES OF CONTAINER OWNERS

CALLED "BIC Codes" or "ISO Alpha-codes"

The international identification code of containers proposed by the Bureau International des Containers

(B.I.C) since 1969 has been standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in

1972. It forms an essential part of the ISO 6346 standard : « Freight Containers - Coding, Identification

and Marking ». (Such standard describes otherwise some technical complementary markings such as

size and type code, country code and various operational marks).

Only ISO Alpha-codes for identification of container owners registered with B.I..C. may be used as unique

identity marking of containers in all international transport and customs declaration documents.

It comprises :

Ø an owner/operator code of 4 letters, the last one being « U » for all freight containers (1)

Ø a serial number of 6 Arabic numerals (2),

Ø a seventh digit (check digit) providing a means of validating the recording and/or transmission accuracy

of the data.

Example (theoretical): BICU 123456 5

It guarantees that the identification of the container is unique.

It permits :

Ø the identification of the owner or principal operator,

Ø the identification of the unit by its owner or operator as reference number for its data base (dimensions,

type, year of putting into operation, date of control, of maintenance, etc..).

It facilitates :

Ø the international circulation and temporary admission for customs purpose,

Ø the control of containers, manually or automatically by computerised and/or remote control systems at

any stage of the transportation chain and especially in intermodal transport.

It is accepted by :

Ø the World Customs Organization and a number of Customs Administrations of which it facilitates the

task in relation with the Customs Convention on Containers, the TIR convention, etc..,

Ø the International Air Transport Association (IATA),

Ø The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS),

Ø the International Federation of International Removers (FIDI),

Ø The International Union of Railways (UIC),

Ø the International Road Transport Union (IRU)

It is used :

in 110 countries by about 1200 owners or operators representing more than 90 % of the world container

fleet.

It is displayed worldwide

Ø a paper copy of the BIC-CODE Register is published yearly

Ø the complete list of the BIC codes is displayed and monthly updated on the Internet web site : www.biccode.

org

Notes: (1) it still exists « J » for detachable freight container-related equipment

and « Z » for container-related trailers and chassis

(2) Please kindly note that B.I.C. does not register the 6 serial numbers, which are left to the owner/operator’s choice

(as long as it ensures that each number is allocated only once)



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The container type

The container type and size