Shipping container

The secondary package when performing as the shipping container must protect the primary packages and the products throughout distribution. Shipping containers are large metal boxes, some more than 50 feet long, used to transfer cargo from ships to trucks and trains easily and efficiently.

This is critical and remarkable task considering the distances of products are shipped, the length of time when they are manufactured until they get to the consumer, and the adverse and hostile conditions they encounter throughout distribution.

The standardized container lengths are 10 feet, 20 feet, 30 feet and 40 feet with widths fixed at eight feet and heights of either eight feet or eight feet six inches.

General purpose (dry cargo) container is the most commonly used shipping container and can carry the widest variety of cargo. It is fully enclosed, weatherproof, and equipped with doors either on the end wall (for end loading) or the side wall (for side loading.)

The vast majority of containers used worldwide today comply with the ISO standard, 20 feet and 40 feet long containers predominating.
Shipping container