Shipping To India as LCL in a Shared Container

If you are shipping to India from USA and paying for your own move, ’Less Than a Container Load (LCL)’ is an affordable way to ship your belongings in small quantities such as some boxes, 1 or 2 TVs and even some furniture. Typically, LCL shipping to India requires a minimum volume requirement of only 50 Cubic Feet (around 8 - 10 boxes). Your boxes are stacked up & wrapped together on a 48" x 40" wooden platform called a pallet in a warehouse facility before being loaded into an ocean container. Also…Read more

Palletizing Explained

Standard Pallet Dims: 40”x48”x5” Maximum Pallet Height: 101” Standard Large Box Dims: 18”x18”24” Standard Medium Box Dims: 18”x18”x18” Standard Small Box Dims: 12”x12”x18” The Basics: If shipping large or medium boxes, ship in multiples of 4 for maximum space utilization. Different size boxes can increase the amount of unusable space. Each layer can have 4 large or medium boxes. This leaves unusable space of 4” on the short side and 12” on the long side of the pallet. If you are shipping small boxes, then each layer can have 12 boxes. It leaves…Read more