Is shipping container transport worth it?

 

Container transport is hailed as one of the greatest innovations in the transportation industry. Ever since the American entrepreneur Malcolm Maclean came up with the first container made of corrugated steel in 1955, the container has evolved from the humble corrugated steel box to the present-day super-efficient intermodal container.

Today over 80% of shipments around the world take place utilising container transport, this in itself is an indication of its popularity.

 

Cargo shipping containers come in standard sizes of 20’, 40’, and 45’ and therefore can be handled by standard container handling equipment such as gantry cranes and reach stackers

Advantages of shipping container transport. Containers can transport a very large variety of goods ranging from food products to machinery to hazardous cargoes. Out-of-Gauge cargo (OOG) can be easily transported on flatbeds or platform containers. Cargoes that are of abnormal sizes and shapes that do not fit into the normal containers are called OOG cargo.

Shipping containers are indivisible units, and each registered container has a unique identification number making it easy to track and trace it during a voyage. This unique number called the container number is given to it following specifications of the Bureau International des Containers (BIC). The BIC is an organization based in Paris that ‘oversees standards for intermodal containers’.

The container number is used in the verification of cargo by various parties such as the shipper, the receiver, ports and customs authorities, etc.

Containers are safe and secure. These heavy-duty boxes are walled on all five sides except one end where the double doors are located. These double doors have double lock-rods each, that are used to lock and seal the container making it safe and tamper-proof.

Container transport is also a very cost effective way of moving goods around the world.

Contact Agora Freight on-line for your container rates and after booking the shipment you will then be in the person hands of one of our logistics exports who will take care of your shipment from A to Z.

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