What about water in a shipping container?
 Apr 03, 2024|View:92

How to prevent water in shipping containers? The water in the container can be divided into the following situations: the cargo itself, the box condensation, the sea water immersion, the fresh water immersion.


1. Bring your own goods


Moisture or moisture is carried into the container along with the cargo. For example, if a container contains five tons of furniture, the furniture itself will contain about 8 to 25 percent humidity, depending on the type of wood and the degree of drying of the furniture. This corresponds to about 400-1250 litres of water. Some of the moisture here will be emitted into the air inside the container, becoming an important source of condensation of water vapor in the container.


2. box condensation


In the process of ocean transportation or storage of containers, containers often experience high temperature climate and strong temperature difference between day and night, temperature change will be 0-8 degrees Celsius, humidity will be as high as 98%, this is the condensation phenomenon, when the temperature is 30 degrees, the water content in the air is 30.4g per square meter. When the temperature drops from 30 degrees Celsius to 18 degrees Celsius, water vapor condenses into water droplets. In a 40-foot container, 1.000 grams of condensed water is produced, causing "container rain."


3. Seawater immersion


Often floating in the sea, which can not wet box? If there is a strong wind and waves, if there is a small damage to the box, if it is on the deck, or if it is in a maritime accident and falls into the sea, it will not run into the sea or wet. I won't say much about that.


4. Fresh water immersion


Box roof or side panel, front panel, door panel, door strip, etc., if there is damage, rain or snow or ship fresh water pipe rupture will lead to water. The recent typhoon intensive, the Yangtze River north and south of the storm, the delivery of more to prevent water problems.


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How to prevent water in shipping containers?


1. All links of goods transportation should be controlled in real time, visualized throughout the whole process as far as possible, and various exchange documents should be kept for evidence in case of emergency claims.


2. Check whether the container is sealed and dry before packing;


3. Confirm whether the goods and loading environment are dry;


4. Strengthen waterproof packaging of goods;


5. reasonable place desiccant in the box;


6. Visual tracking of goods throughout the process.


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