The Newly Modernized World of High Capacity Loading Posted by DC Cargo Mall on June 17, 2013

Shipping cargo overseas was not always so easy.

There were horses, there were buggies, and there were ships. Eventually, there were bikes, and better yet, tiny cars.

As time went on, and progressions took place, the truck and the plane and the modernized boat revolutionized what we now know as cargo loading and shipment.

Moving across the globe to Australia not only became a possibility, but hauling every armoire and car thousands of miles away suddenly did not seem so miraculous anymore. It’s quite ironic, that the easier it gets to do the seemingly impossible, the more we take it for granted.

In our days of old, farmers would transport their produce and hay via a small wagon, and business men their goods, by tying rope around each load at most, to keep from falling. When more freight needed moving, more than one wagon, or multiple trips, were the sorry solution.

Nowadays, a consistently growing capacity of shipment methods is taking place.

 Take a plane’s cargo hold, such as the world’s biggest transporter, the Antonov AN-225. This Russian developed plane was originally built to carry a space shuttle, and has been recently refurbished. It can now hold over 250 tons, about 4 military tanks, or 80 cars! Its wingspan is almost the length of a football field, which explains it, well, partly.

 Then there’s the CMA CGM Alexandor Von Humboldt. This grand wondrous cargo boat easily defines the word enormity.  And its capacity? A maximum of 16,020 TEU. (Twenty-foot-equivalent-unit)

 

As for trucks, there is the ‘Titan Terex’. This monster truck is a site to be seen. It is one-of-a-kind. Literally, only one of these grand things were ever built. It has been the world’s largest and highest capacity truck for over 25 years until the invention of the Caterpillar 797-F, an even larger version costing five million dollars just to construct. 

 

 You can only begin to imagine, that at this trucks capacity- a baffling 400 tons, the amount of heavy-duty straps, chains, or otherwise needed for safe loading. 

We are so lucky to have transportation of heavy items, sent in bulk, so quickly, efficiently, and at unlimited distances.

What we must take a moment to stop and remember, is that the only reason that tanks are not flying about in the belly of the transport plane, and why that enormous coil ring is not rolling off of the flatbed, why those boxes of chickens are not tossed about inside the truck’s interior van, and why the enormous shipload stays in place in spite of rocky waves, is due to cargo securing equipment, and is dependent on the expertise and carefulness of the loader- that’s you!

More specifically, straps, chains, hooks, and the like, hold more significance then we think. If safety is your priority, and loading your expertise, visit us at DCCargoMall.com to learn more safety tricks, and get any loading equipment you need, provided here only with the highest in caliber and quality.