A universal container for the transportation of goods, parcels, shipments, packages, cargoes in primary packaging is a container. Most loading and unloading facilities in warehouses, transfer stations are equipped with lifting devices for moving a standard container. Car platforms, trailers and semi-trailers of container carriers have a mobile lifting device. Container transportation is the safest way in terms of integrity, safety, so there is a huge number of containers for different types of cargo.
Types of containers for transporting goods
In freight transportation, standards for the manufacture of transport containers are adopted, therefore, depending on the carrying capacity, the following types of metal structures are distinguished:
- Large-capacity – this category includes any containers that accept cargo over 10,000 kg.
- Medium – inside the container you can put goods or cargo up to 10,000 kg.
- Low-tonnage – accept cargo weighing up to 2500 kg.
According to the method of loading goods inside the container and the possibility of transportation, three types of containers are distinguished:
- Open cargo platforms designed to carry non-standard size cargo.
- Removable top containers – containers used for transporting oversized equipment.
- Closed boxes – universal containers with standard dimensions and weights – there are two types – with a carrying capacity of 20 and 40 feet.
If dangerous, bulk, liquid cargoes are accepted for transportation, specialized containers are used.
- Tanks.
- Refrigerators.
- Tanks with thermally insulated body.
Metal modules with a carrying capacity of 2.5 to 24 tons are transported by road, which are conveniently reloaded when transferred to another mode of transport:
- air;
- marine;
- railroad;
- river.
If the goods are shipped in a closed container, it is not necessary to check each shipment by name during transfer – it is enough to check the accompanying documentation. On the closed container there is a lock, a seal, which confirms the inviolability, the absence of opening when following the route. In the transport process, this method of transferring cargo from one mode of transport to another saves time for outage. Since the container has standard dimensions, it is easy to pick up a car and calculate route optimization.