How can you not understand containers when doing foreign trade?

How can you not understand containers when doing foreign trade?

1. What do you mean by large cabinet, small cabinet, and double back?

(1) Large containers generally refer to 40-foot containers, usually 40GP and 40HQ. 45-foot containers are generally considered to be special containers.

(2) Small cabinet generally refers to a 20-foot container, usually 20GP.

(3) Double back refers to two 20-foot cabinets. For example, a trailer pulls two 20-foot containers at the same time; when lifting at the port, two 20-foot containers are hoisted to the ship at one time.

2. What does LCL mean? What about the whole box?

(1) Less than Container Load refers to goods with multiple cargo owners in a container. Small batches of goods that do not fit a full container are LCL goods, and are operated according to LCL-LCL.

(2) Full Container Load refers to the goods of only one owner or manufacturer in a container. A larger batch of goods that can fill one or more full containers is a full container load. According to FCL-FCL to operate.

3. What are the common specifications of containers?

(1) 40-foot high container (40HC): 40 feet long, 9 feet 6 inches high; approximately 12.192 meters long, 2.9 meters high, 2.35 meters wide, generally loading about 68CBM.

(2) 40-foot general container (40GP): 40 feet long, 8 feet 6 inches high; approximately 12.192 meters long, 2.6 meters high, 2.35 meters wide, generally loading about 58CBM.

(3) 20-foot general container (20GP): 20 feet long, 8 feet 6 inches high; approximately 6.096 meters long, 2.6 meters high, 2.35 meters wide, generally loading about 28CBM.

(4) 45-foot high container (45HC): 45 feet long, 9 feet 6 inches high; approximately 13.716 meters long, 2.9 meters high, 2.35 meters wide, generally loading about 75CBM.

4. What is the difference between high cabinets and ordinary cabinets?

The tall cabinet is 1 foot higher than the regular cabinet (one foot is equal to 30.44cm). Whether it is a tall cabinet or a regular cabinet, the length and width are the same.

5. What is the self-weight of the box? What about heavy boxes?

(1) Box self-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.

(2) Heavy boxes: refers to boxes filled with goods, as opposed to empty boxes/good boxes.

6. What does empty box or lucky box mean?

Unloaded boxes are called empty boxes. In South China, especially Guangdong and Hong Kong, empty boxes are usually also called auspicious boxes, because in Cantonese, empty and ominous have the same pronunciation, which is unlucky, so in South China, they are not called empty boxes, but auspicious boxes. The so-called pick-up and return of heavy goods means picking up empty boxes, taking them to be loaded with goods, and then returning the loaded heavy boxes.

7. What is a carrying bag? What about the drop box?

(1) Carrying heavy boxes: refers to carrying heavy boxes at the site to the manufacturer or logistics warehouse for unloading (generally refers to import).

(2) Dropping heavy boxes: refers to dropping heavy boxes back to the station (generally refers to export) after loading the goods at the manufacturer or logistics warehouse.

8. What does carrying an empty box mean? What is the empty box?

(1) Carrying empty containers: refers to carrying empty containers at the site to the manufacturer or logistics warehouse for loading (usually for export).

(2) Dropped boxes: refers to the unloading of goods at the manufacturer or logistics warehouse and the dropping of the boxes at the station (usually import).

9. What box type does DC represent?

DC refers to Dry Container, and cabinets such as 20GP, 40GP, and 40HQ are all dry containers.