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#Containers
Container Tracking Explained: What the Box Number Can and Cannot Tell You
How container numbers are structured, what the check digit is for, why one container can hold several shipments, and where the real status lives.
Container Types and Dimensions: The Numbers That Decide Your Booking
Internal dimensions, nominal versus usable volume, and the payload limit that is almost never the container's own limit.
Cargo Securing Inside the Container: The Step Most Shippers Skip
Packing a container is not stacking boxes: weight distribution, void filling and lashing decide whether cargo arrives intact or becomes a claim.
How to Read a Container Number and CSC Plate
The eleven characters on the side of a container are a checkable code, not a serial number. Here is how to verify one yourself and what the safety plate on the door means.
Container Weight Limits, Payload and VGM
A container can legally hold far more than a truck can legally carry it. Loading to the plate figure is how shipments become undeliverable by road.
Reefer, Flat Rack, Open Top and Tank: Special Equipment
Special equipment is scarcer, dearer and slower to position than a standard box. Here is what each type is actually for and when a standard container will do.
Container Damage, Detention and Per Diem: Who Pays
The container is not yours. You are borrowing it, and the charges for holding it or returning it damaged are separate from the freight you agreed.
Segregation and Stowage of Dangerous Goods at Sea
Two containers that are each perfectly safe can be a serious hazard side by side. Segregation is why a dangerous goods booking takes longer and costs more.
High Cube vs Standard: When the Extra Foot Helps
The extra foot of height is nearly free at sea and occasionally impossible on the road. Whether it helps depends on your cargo height and your destination.
Shipper-Owned vs Carrier-Owned Containers (SOC vs COC)
A shipper-owned container stops the detention clock permanently. It also makes the empty your problem, which is the whole calculation.
Container Freight Indices Explained: SCFI, WCI, FBX and XSI
Every week a different headline says container rates rose or fell, and the numbers rarely match. This guide explains who publishes each major index, what it actually measures, and how to use one when you talk to a forwarder.
Inland Container Depots and Dry Ports: How Inland Clearance Works
An inland container depot (ICD) or dry port is a container terminal away from the coast, linked to a seaport by rail or road. This guide covers how the move works, who pays for what, and where the clocks and charges catch shippers out.
Reefer Container PTI and Cold Chain Monitoring: What Shippers Need to Know
A Pre-Trip Inspection tells you a reefer container can hold set point before you load it, nothing more. Here is what PTI actually checks, who is supposed to pay for it, and why it is not the same thing as watching the box during the voyage.
Container Leasing, Repositioning and Street Turns Explained
Avoiding detention on a box you already hold is one problem. The commercial supply of that box, who owns it, why one-way leasing exists, and how a street turn can skip a repositioning move, is a different one. Here is how the container-supply economics actually work.