Container shipments

How much container capacity do you need for your shipment?

FCL or LCL for your shipment?

Full container load (FCL) means that the volume is large enough to fill a whole container by one customer. Less than container load (LCL) means that the shipment is smaller than a full container load and that multiple shippers' goods are packed together.

In most cases, LCL (less than container load) means that pallets are being shipped. In some cases other units i.e. boxes, sacks, bales, barrels, etc. are being transported. These units can also be arranged on pallets.

In case, when large or odd-sized items are being transported there, maybe need to provide special solutions, in some cases open units in full container load (FCL).

What type of container?

There are many things that need to be considered when choosing containers. Below you can read about sizes, types and other things that should be taken into consideration when transporting a full container load.
20ft and 40 ft containers of various types are used:

Dry containers are used to transport various dry goods such as clothing, personal effects, furniture, industrial products, etc.
Temperature controlled containers (refrigerated- and freezer containers) are used to transport i.e. food, fish products, various raw material, and other products that are sensitive to changes in temperature.
Open containers (flat rack, open-top containers, etc.) for the transport of various types of goods, appliances, large and oversized units.

Responsibility for container loading depends on the description in the sailing manifest:

FCL/FCL - sender loads container and receiver empties
LCL/FCL - Eimskip loads container and receiver empties
FCL/LCL - sender loads container and Eimskip empties
LCL/LCL - Eimskip loads container and empties

More about containers

Container types

20 feet standard dry container

Inner dimension	Door height	Tare weight	Container volume	Payload mass
L: 5.895 mm		2.330 kg	33 m3	28.500 kg
B: 2.350 mm	B: 2.340 mm
H: 2.390 mm	H: 2.280 mm

40 feet standard dry container

Inner dimension	Door height	Tare weight	Container volume	Payload mass
L: 12.030 mm		3.800 kg	67 m3	26.800 kg
B: 2.350 mm	B: 2.340 mm
H: 2.390 mm	H: 2.280 mm

Dry container (40 feet high cube)

Inner dimension	Door height	Tare weight	Container volume	Payload mass
L: 12.030 mm		3.850 kg	76 m3	26.800 kg
B: 2.350 mm	B: 2.340 mm
H: 2.690 mm	H: 2.585 mm

Temperature controlled (40 feet high cube)

Inner dimension	Door height	Tare weight	Container volume	Payload mass
L: 11.577 mm		4.600 kg	67 m3	29.000 kg
B: 2.280 mm	B: 2.290 mm
H: 2.525 mm	H: 2.492 mm

Insulated containers

Inner dimension	Door height	Tare weight	Container volume	Payload mass
L: 5.850 mm		2.460 kg	31 m3	17.800 kg
B: 2.290 mm	B: 2.290 mm
H: 2.280 mm	H: 2.240 mm

Bulk-containers

Inner dimension	Door height	Top open	Tare weight	Container volume	Payload mass
L: 5.895 mm		3 x 50 cm diameter	2.330 kg	33 m3	28.500 kg
B: 2.350 mm	B: 2.340 mm
H: 2.390 mm	H: 2.280 mm

Flat racks

Inner dimension	Tare weight	Payload mass
L: 11.770 mm	4.900 kg	40.100 kg
B: 2.360 mm
H: 1.900 mm

20 feet open top

Inner dimension	Door height	Top open	Tare weight	Container volume	Payload mass
L: 5.890 mm		L: 5.680 mm	2.300 kg	32 m3	28.100 kg
B: 2.350 mm	B: 2.336 mm	B: 2.250 mm
H: 2.350 mm

40 feet open top

Inner dimension	Door height	Top open	Tare weight	Container volume	Payload mass
L: 12.026 mm		L: 11.879 mm	3.940 kg	66 m3	26.500 kg
B: 2.350 mm	B: 2.336 mm	B:2.184 mm
H: 2.390 mm

Weight restrictions / maximum permissible weight (gross content)

Land	Tonn	Note
France	22,5
Germany	22,5
Germany - Bremerhaven	25	Transit within 150 km radius from the port of discharge
Netherlands	26
UK	23	Extra charge for 25 tonnes container
Poland	22,5
Belgium	26
Denmark	25	When driving from Rotterdam and passing through Germany the permissible weight is 22.5 tonnes
Finland	26
Greece	22
Iceland	25
Italy	22
Canada	26
Norway	24
Portugal	25	Transferred by vessel to Portugal and driven from there
Spain - Truck and vessel	25	Transferred by vessel to Spain and driven from there
Spain - Truck	22,5
Switzerland	22
Sweden	26
USA - East Coast	19,8	Average weight, it is necessary to look into this for each state
USA - West Coast	17	Average weight, it is necessary to look into this for each state