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Determining Cubic Metres or CBM is the introductory step you must take in determining how to ship your cargo. You don’t want to be shipping FCL cargo as FCL Groupage cargo nor do you want to be shipping FCL Groupage Cargo as FCL, unless plainly you have reached or exceeded the break-even point of your cargo which I instruct in the section FCL vs FCL Groupage. The CBM of a consignment is always calculated L x W x H e.g. 3,20 x 2,45 x 1,56 = 12,23CBM For Seafreight shipments, the idea is to calculate CBM in metres. If you have 320cm’s A 20ft General Purpose or arid container will pack a greatest or most complete or best possible of 33,2CBM whilst a 40ft General Purpose or arid container will pack 67,7CBM. A 40ft High Cube which will grant you more space to pack and will pack a greatest or most complete or best possible of 76,3CBM. 40ft General Purpose containers and High Cube containers are only to be applied for more spectacular volume cargo and not more prominent weight cargo. In my article on cargo weights and road weight limitations, I talk about this point further. Also to bear in mind is the length of your cargo, you can’t pack 13 metre steel pipes in a 40ft General Purpose container as it is only 12,036metres in lenght. The proper instrumentation will be required in this case. For airfreight shipments, the method that the airline industry uses is the If you have 5 boxes that identical in size that are 23cmx34cmx56cm (LxBxH) What you will have to do basi is discerned the Volumetric from the Actual Weight. Volumetric Weight Actual Weight For 5 boxes : 7,30 x 5 For 5 boxes : 10 x 5 =36,5kgs =50kgs The true weight necessitated to be declared to the airline here will be the actual weight |
