Some common queries ...

1. Container types

2. What is container leasing?

In the 1960's, a typical ship carried 12,000 tons of cargo with a crew of 40 and required 10 days to unload. Today, a container ship can carry six times the cargo with one-third the crew. Mechanized terminals unload and reload huge containerships, some carrying more than 5,000 containers, in less than a day.

Since the late 1960's containerization and world trade has spiralled upward in synchronous growth. More efficient transport methods created greater volumes of trade and vice versa, greatly reducing transport time and costs. Today, the major cost components in international manufacture and trade design are raw materials and labour.

One of the primary benefits of containerization has been the ability of the shipping industry to effectively lower freight rates due to efficiencies created by standardized intermodal containers. Containers can be handled much more efficiently than loose cargo and are typically shipped via several modes of transportation, including truck, railway and ship. Containers require loading and unloading only once and remain sealed until arrival at the final destination, significantly reducing transport time, labor and handling costs and losses due to damage and theft. Efficient movement of containerized cargo between ship and shore reduces the amount of time that a ship must spend in port and reduces the transit time of freight moves.