A study on LCL cargo movement in international business with special reference to eminent sea and Air Logistic Pvt Ltd

A freight container is rectangular in shape, weatherproof, used for transporting and storing a number of unit loads, packages or bulk material; it confiners and protects the contents from loss or damage, it can be separated from the means of transport, handled as a unit load and transshipped without remanding the contents. The system is a long established one and was carried out in a somewhat primitive form in the North Atlantic Coastal Track in the 1930’s, when the vessels were called Van ships. The concept gainer momentum in 1955, when an American named Malcom Mclean devised a new way to ship goods. Mr. McLean's first ship an oil tanker called the ‘Ideal-X, made its initial voyage from New York to Houston in 1956 with lorry bodies on its deck. In 1965 ships with containers on board (which could be stacked several high aboard the ship) began crossing the Atlantic. By 1967, dual purpose ships, caring loose cargo in the hold and containers on deck were giving way to container only vessels that moved thousands of boxes at a time. The container crane, made it possible to efficiently load and unload containers. Cost of shipping was reduced since ships could be loaded by a few dozen workers in the place of hundreds and also pilferage was much reduced. The need to build wooden crates to project individual items was made unnecessary. The holds of container vessels are fitted with a series of angle guides, adequately cross braced, to accept the container. Such holds are completely dedicated to either the 20th 40ft.containers. The containers are stacked, such that, the one above rests securely on the weight bearing corner castings of the one below. The angle quires also facilitate discharging and loading by guiding spreader frames of container cranes onto the corner castings of containers without any need for the crane driver to make any fine adjustments to line up the lighting frame.