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Subject: Size of shipping containers from China
Category: Business and Money > Small Businesses
Asked by: dixiedream-ga
List Price: $2.50
Posted: 09 Feb 2004 17:41 PST
Expires: 10 Mar 2004 17:41 PST
Question ID: 305196
I want to know how many cubic meters are in a 20 and 40 foot shipping container.
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Subject: Re: Size of shipping containers from China
Answered By: aht-ga on 09 Feb 2004 18:37 PST
 
dixiedream-ga:

The actual volume of any particular container will depend on the
manufacturer of the container, and the shipping company's own
restrictions. However, generally speaking, you can count on a 20 foot
container holding at least 33 m^3, and a 40 foot container holding at
least 67 m^3.

You will also need to factor in the maximum allowable weight, should
the contents be too heavy for the container or the truck that will
need to haul it to and from the ports.

Here are several websites with information that you can use to verify this:

http://www.shipit.co.uk/ContainerSizes.htm

 - 20ft: 33.2 m^3 ; 40ft: 67.7 m^3 

http://www.alken-murray.com/OceanContainer.pdf

 - 20ft: 33.97 m^3 ; 40ft: 68.74 m^3

http://www.anchortrailers.com/shipping.asp

 - 20ft: 33.61 m^3 ; 40ft: 67.22 m^3 
 

However, perhaps the most important guide to go by, is the largest
China-US shipping company, COSCO:

http://www.cosco-usa.com/omd/containers.htm

 - 20ft: 33 m^3 (actually 33.1 m^3 by their measurements)
 - 40ft: 67 m^3 (actually 67.5 m^3 by their measurements)

I hope this helps,

aht-ga
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Subject: Re: Size of shipping containers from China
From: pinkfreud-ga on 09 Feb 2004 18:20 PST
 
In order to calculate the number of cubic meters, you need to know
three dimensions: length, width, and height.
Subject: Re: Size of shipping containers from China
From: iome-ga on 09 Feb 2004 18:22 PST
 
According to this site <http://www.discount-shipping.net/boxes2.html>
a 20' sea container has a 30 cubic meter capacity and a 40' container
has a 60 cubic meter capacity.

This site <http://www.warrenoil.com/export.html> has the same figures.
Subject: Re: Size of shipping containers from China
From: from_dhaka-ga on 09 Feb 2004 21:59 PST
 
Following are the container dimensions used. They are standardized,

Dimension of 20 feet container: 20(L) x 8.5 (H) x 8 (W) vol. 28 cubic meter
Dimension of 40 feet container: 40(L) x 8.5 (H) x 8 (W) vol. 58 cubic meter
Dimensions of High Cube:        40(L) x 9.6 (H) x 8 (W) vol. 68 cubic meter
Subject: Re: Size of shipping containers from China
From: from_dhaka-ga on 09 Feb 2004 22:01 PST
 
sorry for a mistake

>dimensions are in feed
>volume are in meters
Subject: Re: Size of shipping containers from China
From: italy500-ga on 02 Mar 2004 20:50 PST
 
To aht-ga,
if you know lots about importing and shipping, please find my question
in Business and money<small business<
Importing Products from other Countries. Questions on Import Process 
Asked by: italy500-ga 

Thanks

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