Freight & packaging guides

Understand the measurements behind your shipment. Practical explanations, worked examples and common mistakes to avoid.

What Is CBM? A Practical Guide to Cargo Volume

Learn how to measure packed cargo, calculate cubic meters and avoid common shipment-volume mistakes.

Understand how volumetric weight works, why the divisor matters and how to compare packing options consistently.

Work through actual versus dimensional weight, identify the controlling measure and understand the limits of a planning result.

Compare container types using internal space, door clearance and payload, then turn a volume estimate into a loading plan.

Plan carton layers on a pallet, separate cargo height from pallet height and understand where simple fit estimates stop.