{"id":1362,"date":"2016-08-09T04:21:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T08:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conteneursea.patrickbonneau.com\/en\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2024-09-01T12:15:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T16:15:48","slug":"do-you-require-a-20-or-40-foot-container","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conteneursea.com\/en\/blogue\/do-you-require-a-20-or-40-foot-container\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you require a 20 or 40 Foot Container?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Once you have decided to rent or purchase a shipping container, the next step is deciding upon a <a href=\"\/en\/shipping-container-dimensions\/\">20 or 40-foot container<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you plan on using the shipping container for moving cargo it is essential you know exactly how much product you are moving as a 40-foot container is obviously more expensive than a 20-foot container.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, if you can fill a 40-foot container with product, it will be cheaper to move based on a per kilometre charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For instance, using a freight calculator, a 20-foot container being shipped by sea from Montreal to Boston would cost about $395 while a 40-foot container would cost around $590.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if you need to ship a large amount of cargo, a 40-foot container would be much more economical than two 20-foot containers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another thing to consider is what you are shipping. 20-foot containers are built to carry more weight (examples: minerals, metals, machinery, sugar, paper, cement)&nbsp; than voluminous cargo, while 40-foot containers are built to carry voluminous cargo (examples: furniture, cotton, tobacco, steel pipes) rather than heavy cargo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately what this means is you can\u2019t pack double the 20-foot container cargo weight into a 40-container, but you can pack more than double the 20-foot cargo volume into a 40-foot container.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some facts about shipping containers: In 2012, there were close to 20.5 million containers in the world. While there some variations from 20- and 40-foot containers those two make up the vast majority of the world\u2019s shipping containers. Of those, 67 per cent were 40-foot containers, while 33 per cent were 20-foot containers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once you have decided to rent or purchase a shipping container, the next step is deciding upon a 20 or 40-foot container. If you plan on using the shipping container for moving cargo it is essential you know exactly how much product you are moving as a 40-foot container is obviously more expensive than a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unclassified"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conteneursea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conteneursea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conteneursea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conteneursea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conteneursea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/conteneursea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4023,"href":"https:\/\/conteneursea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/4023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conteneursea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conteneursea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conteneursea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}