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7 articlesHow Many Pallets Fit in a 13.6 m Trailer? 34, 33 or 26
The floor of a 13.6 m curtainsider takes 34 Euro pallets — 33 if you want tolerance on your side, 26 if they are industrial. None of those numbers is the answer to how many you can actually load: payload runs out first, and the drive axle runs out before payload.
Ocean Freight Rates Near Their Peak: Drewry's Index Hits $4,339 as Shanghai-New York Reaches $8,706
Drewry's composite index closed 13 August at $4,339 per FEU, up about 74% year on year. Transpacific lanes climbed while Asia-Europe fell, Hormuz transits are still 70% below pre-war levels, and 49 sailings have been cancelled through mid-September. Here is the market as it stands, and what the 2027 orderbook says next.
Shipping Container Dimensions: Only the Outside Is Standard
A 40ft container's exterior is fixed to the millimetre. Its interior is not — ISO sets only a floor, and for weight there are three separate ceilings at once. Internal and external dimensions, door openings, tare and payload for every container type, and which figure is actually binding.
Türkiye Rewrote Its Truck Overload Fines — and Made the Shipper Pay Too
On 27 February 2026, Türkiye's Law No. 7574 raised truck overload fines to a tiered 10,000–60,000 TL, made the consignor separately liable for the first time, and barred foreign-plated vehicles from leaving the country until fines are paid. Here is the new table, the axle math behind the quietest fine on it, and how a Türkiye–Iraq carrier closes the risk at the loading dock.
How Many Pallets Fit in a 40ft Container? 25 Euro, 21 GMA — and the Floor Plan That Gets You There
A 20ft container takes 11 Euro pallets and a 40ft takes 25 — but only when some of the pallets are turned. Capacity tables by pallet standard, the pinwheel floor-plan math, the weight limit that caps double-stacking, and a real Shanghai–Rotterdam scenario.
CBM Calculation: Measuring One Cubic Meter Wrong Costs $4,300 per Shipment
What is CBM and how do you calculate it? Formulas for sea, air, and road freight, volumetric weight rules, and real container capacity tables — with worked export examples.
How we saved a truck a day on our Hamburg lane
The honest version of the story — six months in. What worked, what didn't, and what we'd tell another team thinking about it.