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Don’t Take Your Shipping Crates for Granted!

October 17, 2022 by admin

In much the same way no one notices the housework until it isn’t done, nobody thinks about shipping crates until a shipping crate breaks, fails, or otherwise lets them down. Yet shipping crates are your shipment’s first, best line of defense against the hazards faced in shipping. Here’s what you need to know about shipping crates:

What Type of Items Require Shipping Crates?

There are a few criteria that means a shipment requires shipping crates. The first example: merchandise that shouldn’t be vibrated, shocked, or otherwise knocked around while in transport. Both overseas shipment and air shipment can be a rough journey. Shipping crates provide the ultimate level of protection.

Find the best shipping crates in Eastern MA.

Shipping crates are also a good idea when the merchandise is of a value that would make it tempting to thieves. It is much harder to rapidly open and extricate merchandise from a wooden shipping crate than it is to snatch a few boxes off of a palletized load.

Shipping Crates: Standard and Custom Sizes

Wooden shipping crates should be large enough to contain your merchandise and the appropriate amount of protective packing material. Any larger than that, and you’re increasing the chances of your load shifting during transport. The key of all successful business shipping is to minimize how much the product travels within its containers.

To get a clearer understanding of what your package may be going through, check out shipping containers on heavy seas videos on YouTube. These giant ships get tossed around on some very big waves. Your shipment is one tiny crate inside so many shipping containers. It deserves all the protection it can get!

For this reason, the best local shipping store offers wooden shipping crates in standard and custom sizes. You will be able to choose the option that best fits your needs. Other specialty shipping crates of metal and plastic are also available when appropriate.

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