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Learn about ocean container carriers for your businessBy Nikki Davis Whether you are looking for 20' or 40' high ocean container carriers, finding the right wind and watertight shipping box for your merchandise can mean the difference between your goods making their way to their destination safely or ending up ruined by salt water corrosion or mold from moisture.
To meet ISO specifications, most container transportation boxes include steel to withstand oceanic condition, corrugated sides to be less prone to damage as well as recessed front and rear sills. Since 2007, non-bulk cargo has been routinely shipped in ocean transport containers because of the lower handling costs, the speed of transport as well as the durability of container offers a reduction to damage to the goods. The durability of the waterborne container carriers also offers greater security.
To find out more about waterborne container carriers basics:
1. Scope out carrier container transport dimensions. Decide if standard sizes will fit your needs or if a custom size will need to be made for your goods.
2. Take advantage of container transport interactive guides. Also make use of business information on container specs.
3. Pull together your own study or purchase a comparative study on ocean container carriers to decide what container freight carriers are best for your business.
Look at container transport dimensions
Scope out the standard sizes of ocean container carriers available on the market. Custom sizes are available for production, but you will find that purchasing a standard size is most cost effective.
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Find standard ocean container dimensions, with images of the different types from Foreign Trade On-Line. Roadway also offers helpful ocean container specifications. Look at dry freight and high cube container info.
Check out container transportation interactive guides and specs
Take a look at businesses that offer interactive container transportation resources and information. Also check out additional specification information from business providers.
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World Class Shipping offers an interactive guide to shipping container size and specifications. Take a look at the Ocean Container Specs from Averitt.
Do a comparative study on ocean container carriers
Look at the differences in reconditioned, new and custom transport containers. Also consider investing in an industry report to help you make your decision.
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Find out from W&K Container the difference between purchasing a new container versus a reconditioned container versus a modified container. Consider the purchase of the industry report Illustrated Guide to Ocean Freight Containers to help you make your ocean container carrier purchase. It is available for $18.00 as an automated pdf download copy printable on 8.5x11. It profiles different ocean freight container types as well as container handling equipment.
- Pricing for ocean container carriers will generally vary by region.
- Find out what ton rating your transport containers are built for before purchasing and filling up.
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American Container Line is an international freight services company and Non-Vessel-Operating Common Carrier (NVOCC) founded and managed by transportation and logistics management specialists.
http://www.americancontainerline.com/
American Presidents Line (APL)
Provides worldwide container transportation and logistics services through a network combining intermodal operations with information technology.
Worldwide logistics and freight forwarding for oversized and project cargo.
Container carrier featuring trans-Atlantic shipping; offers a combination of roll-on/roll-off (RORO)/container vessels.
Provides an ocean freight service linking Bermuda with the world. It operates a weekly service between Port Elizabeth, New Jersey and Hamilton, Bermuda.
International transportation company with multiple services offered to facilitate door to door shipping by air, rail, ocean, and truck; offers warehousing, freight forwarding, and freight insurance as well.
http://www.worldwideshipping.com/
Container carrier operating between North America and Europe.
CSL operates a fleet of 12 vessels on the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Waterway system; company specializes in self-unloading bulk carriers with inland, coastal and deep-sea trading capabilities.
Provider of vessel husbandry, coal forwarding and container lines.
Provider of weekly containerized shipping services between Europe and North America.
China Ocean Shipping Co. (COSCO)
Operater of a variety of ships, including container vessels, bulk carriers, general cargo ships, tankers, LPG vessels, refrigerated cargo ships, timber vessels and ferries.
One of the largest volume carriers with service from the East, Gulf and West Coasts of North America.
Container transportation company based in Cleveland, Ohio, has partnerships and affiliations with major rail and ocean carriers.
Ocean transportation covering Asia, Europe and the Mediterranean.
The core-activity of Danser Container Line is offering regular barge services between the seaports Rotterdam, Antwerp & Zeebrugge and the European hinterland.
http://www.dansercontainerline.com/
Provides direct total global access for both less than container and full container load cargo.
Provider of deep-sea chartering, container transport, warehousing and packaging services.
Ocean carrier offering service to the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
An ocean transportation company specializing on fulfilling the Latin American market.
http://www.greatwhitefleet.com/
Operator of container ships, gas tankers, reefer and tramp ships.
Hanjin Shipping offers services to Asia, Australia, and Europe.
Shipper of general and consolidated cargoes in containers or on open flats.
http://www.itl.net/vc/europe/jersey/business/HuelinRenouf/page1.html
Provider of weekly less-than-container load consolidation services worldwide.
Provider of maritime transport utilizing refrigerated vessles, gas carriers and bulk carriers.
Trans-Pacific shipping line specializing in container handling, garments handling, and self-contained double-stack trains for refrigerated containers and other commodities.
One of Canadas most diversified shipping companies whose fleet moves in a timely and cost-efficient manner whether moving general cargo, or containers.
Engaged, directly or through subsidiary companies, in the following shipping segments: car carriers, liquid natural gas carriers, forest product carriers, dry bulk vessels and ship management services.
Containerized shipping service with weekly services between North America, Mexico and Northern Europe and the Mediterranean.
Offers container services between a wide range of ports directly served in the N.W. Continent, UK, Portugal and Southern Africa.
Offers a full range of ocean transportation services in the Pacific, including service to Hawaii and Guam, and service between California ports and the Pacific Northwest ports of Seattle and Vancouver, B.C.
Shipping line engaged in worldwide container transport and cruises.
Core activity is container logistics through the network of global shipping links of P&O Nedlloyd.
Provides services in more than 100 countries and operates one of the largest containership and Aframax tanker fleets worldwide; it is also the largest shipping company listed on the Stock Exchange of Singapore.
Nippon Yusen Kaisha Line (NYK)
Operate the world's largest cargo fleet; serves customers around the world with inland transport and related intermodal logistics services.
Provider of chartering, ship brokering and container transport services.
http://www.indialog.com/ft/noha/home1006.htm
A Norwegian reefer transportation company listed on the Oslo (Norway) Stock Exchange.
Provider of full container service linking Northern Europe with the Great Lakes region.
A global door-to-door container shipping company; operates a global network of 77 trade lanes connect more than 250 main ports plus a larger number of additional ports through feeder services.
Operates four modern container ships and one break bulk vessel, particular suited for navigation in icy waters.
Services include full container load, less than container load, less than trailer load, break bulk, roll on roll off and chartering fixtures.
http://www.rtmline.com/index_n.html
Specializes in shipping and related trade services to the Mediterranean, North Africa, South America, and the Far East.
A short sea operator specialized in intermodal services. All container types are available including high cube and europalletwide.
A Lebanese shipping company providing both full container vessels and conventional vessels.
http://www.sealine.com.lb/index.html
Provider of crude oil, petroleum, liquid chemical and dry bulk cargo transportation.
Teekay Shipping Corporation is a provider of international crude oil and petroleum product transportation services through the world's largest fleet of medium size oil tankers.
World wide transportation of containers, multipurpose and project cargoes. Expertise on the Far East and Pacific transhipment market. Competitive chartering and brokering of container, heavy lift, projects and dry cargo.
Totem Ocean Trailer Express Line
Alaskan ocean transporting line operating a Roll-on/Roll-off (Ro/Ro) service between the ports of Anchorage and Tacoma, WA.
Transcontainer Transportation Inc.
Provides container shipment services that include heavy industrial equipment, precious household goods and valuables.
http://www.transcontainer.com/
Ocean freight line operating from Florida to Central America, South America and the Caribbean ports of Aruba, Curacao and Jamaica.
Operates four newly built 1100 TEU cellular container vessels. Directly serves the US east coast to and from Turkish, Portugual and Greek ports.
Operates LASH vessels in liner service between the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts and the Mediterranean, Middle East, Indian Sub-Continent and Southeast Asia; a variety of general, bulk and project cargo is transported eastbound, while large amounts of rub
http://www.waterman-steamship.com/
Provides all types of containers, being a member of the container pool of Hamburg Süd The Shipping Group.
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