Capacity and Configuration Advice

 Having a hard time determining whether your cargo would fit inside a 20Ft container or a 40Ft container? Unable to imagine or physically determine how to best configure your boxes to maximize the space within your container?

Remove the guesswork and let us help you with your capacity and configuration concerns. MLA provides its clients with free capacity and configuration advisory(CCA) which gives them recommendations on how to go about transporting their cargo.

The CCA's recommendations are based on client-supplied data using the CCA request form. Based on cargo dimensions from the CRF, the CCA recommends what type of container (20Ft, 40Ft, etc) would be optimal for the cargo, along with that container's capacity and an estimate of cargo utilization of the space. It also computes for Shipment/Capacity Ratio, which is an estimate of how much cargo of given dimesion would fit inside recommended container. A run-down of possible box sizes that would fill-up excess capacity is also given.The Suggested Configuration section of the CCA features a color-coded illustration of suggested layout of the boxes that would maximize space inside the container.

Help us help you. Send us an email via mla@mlaworld.net regarding your logistics concern and we'll get back to you ASAP.

Malcolm McLean - Father of Containerization

As McLean's first container ship left harbor, Freddy Fields, top official of the International Longshoremen's Association, remarked: "I'd like to sink that sonofabitch."

To Containerize or Not

This is a question that a lot of suppliers ask themselves when preparing their goods for transport to their clients.

Depending on the type and amount of cargo they intend to move; suppliers have several options when choosing how to transport their goods.

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