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Thursday, January 11, 2007

LOGISTICAL PACKAGING UNITS

Unit Load

A unit load is a single item, a number of items, or a bulk material that is arranged and restrained so that the load can be stored, picked up, and moved between two locations as a single mass.

Examples of Unit load: Pallet, Carton, Container

Unitisation

Unitisation is the action taken or the process to package the cargo into unit loads.

For instance, palletisation. There must be a marking on the pallets to show that it is being fumigated before transportation (sea or air). Pallet, however, had some limitations. These include lack of standardization, limited storage space and high cost of materials (especially metal pallet).

Containerisation

Containerisation is the action taken or the process to package the cargo from unit loads into containers which the contents do not have to be unloaded at each point of transfer. It allows efficient transfer of unitized loads among different modes of transportation (air, sea or land).

Container is a large reusable receptacle that can accommodate smaller cartons or cases in a single shipment, designed for efficient handling of cargo which can lower logistics cost in terms of transportation, handling, inventory or packaging cost. It comes in the sizes (lengths) of 10, 20 and 40 feet.

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