What is the difference between a shipper owned container and carrier owned container ?
Well, from these two terms, the difference should be pretty obvious – a shipper owned container is a container owned by the shipper of the goods and a carrier owned container is a container owned by a carrier. But the question may be a bit deeper than just the difference in definition between the two.. First and foremost let me jog your memory about what is a shipping container. In simple terms a shipping container or a freight container is a solid metal box of a standard size and specification designed to carry goods around the world on board ships. It is referred to as Container, Box, TEU, FEU, Equipment, Units etc and comes in many sizes and types such as 10', 20', 40', 45', GP, HQ, OT, FR, RF half-height etc. The shipping container is universally hailed as one of the greatest inventions of the modern world, one that completely changed the way in which business has been done since the 20th century and really and truly made the world a smaller place and t