Sea cargo reference
40' Platform
A bare forty-foot deck. The figures below are the inside of the box, the door, and the weights.
- Internal length
- 12.192 m
- Internal width
- 2.245 m
- Internal height
- 0.648 m
- Door opening, width
- Does not apply
- Door opening, height
- Does not apply
- Cubic capacity
- Does not apply
- Empty weight
- 5700 kg
- Payload
- 39300 kg
The figures below are the outside ISO footprint and the height of the deck. A platform has no inside to measure.
How a 40' Platform is used
A forty-foot load bed, again with nothing at all standing above the deck.
It takes very long and very heavy cargo that no enclosed or walled unit could accept, the sort of piece that would otherwise need break-bulk handling. Loading is clear from above and from all four sides.
Stowage is worked out for each shipment. The cargo usually needs an approved lashing plan, and its size decides where on the ship it can be carried.
Cargo it suits
How the box is made
- A bare load bed: steel decking over a heavy longitudinal underframe, with no walls, ends or roof.
- Corner castings in the ISO positions are what still make it a container, rather than a plain flat bed.
- Lashing points run the full length of both side rails.
- A steel frame with a wooden floor and no walls at the sides or ends. That is what lets a very heavy weight sit on a small area.
- Lashing rings sit in the side rails, rated to 3,000 kg.
- A gooseneck tunnel at each end.
Why shippers choose it
- Nothing stands above the deck, so there is no height limit, and cargo may overhang on every side.
- This is the most open unit for a piece that is genuinely out of gauge.
- Loading is clear from above and from all four sides.
Check these before you book
- Cargo has no protection at all and takes the full weather and sea spray.
- The shipment normally needs an approved stowage and lashing plan, and out-of-gauge charges apply.