6.5.1 Container Sizes and Shipping Terminologies集装...

6.5.1 Container Sizes and Shipping Terminologies集装箱尺寸和运输术语

Before you ship goods via containers,you must know the common sizes of containers and important terminologies in container shipping(see Figure 6-1 and Table 6-2).

♦Container sizes and dimensions:

Figure 6-1 Common Sizes of Containers

Table 6-2 Common Container Sizes and Dimensions

♦Container Yard(CY):The area adjacent to the vessel berth where containers are delivered to or received from the vessel,or delivered to and received from inland carriers.

♦Container Freight Station(CFS):A facility at which LCL cargoes are received from merchants for loading into containers or at which LCL cargoes are unloaded from containers and delivered to merchants.

♦DOOR:The consignor or consignee’s warehouse where the cargo is loaded or unloaded.

♦Full Container Load(FCL):A shipment that fills up a container’s allowable maximum weight or measurement.In practice,however,FCL in ocean shipping does not always mean packing a container to its full payload or full capacity.It means that the entire container load is bound for one consignee.

♦Less than Container Load(LCL):A shipment that is not large enough to fill up a standard cargo container so that it has to share a container with other consignors’ cargoes which are bound for the same destination.

♦Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit(TEU):A measure of the cargo capacity of container ships or container terminals based on the size of a standardized container of 20 feet in length.