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What types of containers are used in freight?

Nov 07, 2024|View:10

With the continuous development of container transport, in order to adapt to the loading of different types of cargo needs, and thus the emergence of different types of containers. We usually use the basic is the general container, frozen container, open top container, hanging box, frame box and tank box these categories.

1. Ordinary container

Ordinary containers, also known as dry containers (dry container), refers to the fully enclosed, with a rigid roof, side walls, end walls and wall bottom, at least on one side of the end wall of the container with the door.

To ship groceries mainly, usually used to ship cultural goods, daily necessities, medicine, textiles, handicrafts, chemical products, hardware and electricity, electronic machinery, instruments and machine parts. This container accounts for 70 ~ 80% of the total number of containers.

In addition to frozen goods, live animals, plants, in size, weight and other aspects of suitable for container transport of goods, can use dry containers.

2. Open top container

Open Top Container (Open Top Container), also known as open top container, open top container, referred to as OT cabinet. This container does not have a box top, but there can be folded top beam support canvas, plastic cloth or plastic coated cloth made of canopy, can be used to load and unload cargo from the top of the crane, open top box can be opened at the top of the container or without a fixed item surface, the top of the shipment with a tarpaulin cover, its watertight requirements and the same as the dry container. Suitable for loading glass panels, steel products, machinery and other heavy cargo.

3. Refrigerated container

Reefer Container (Reefer Container), referred to as RF cabinet. Divided into external and built-in two kinds, the temperature can be adjusted between -60 ℃ ~ +30 ℃.

Built-in container in the transport process can be arbitrarily started freezer, so that the container to maintain the specified temperature; and external type must rely on container special vehicles, ships and special yards, stations equipped with freezers to cooling.

This box is suitable for transporting butter, chocolate, frozen fish, condensed milk, margarine and other items in the summer.

4. Hanging container

Hanging container (Hanger Tanker), referred to as HT cabinet. Mainly for some easy to wrinkle should not be folded high-grade suits, shirts and other clothing goods transport.

Box in order to prevent the clothes from moisture and box wall dew, box board is generally equipped with lining board. In the internal box top equipped with hanging clothes steel rod, some use the net or knot from the top of the box to hang down, clothes hanging in the mesh or knot.

5. Tank container

Tank Container (Tank Container), referred to as TK cabinet. Is for the transport of alcohol, oil, liquid food, chemicals and other liquid goods and the manufacture of special containers, its structure is fixed in a metal frame on a stainless steel pressure vessel, tanks in the body of the gallbladder more 316 stainless steel manufacturing.

Most of the tanks have steam or electric heating devices, inert gas protection devices, pressure reduction devices and other optional equipment required for the transport and loading and unloading of fluids. Its handling operations, loading, unloading, storage need to be a special place, and equipped with special fire safety equipment.

6. Frame container

Frame container (Flat Rack), referred to as FR cabinet, is in the ordinary cabinet on the basis of the removal of the box top and side walls, only the four corners of the column, which is also its biggest feature.

Loading and unloading from the side of the container to large ultra-wide and ultra-high cargo as the main object of transport, but also to facilitate the loading of livestock, as well as such as steel and so on can be exempted from the outer packaging of the bare cargo.