Containerization#Full container load

Full Container Load (FCL) (French Complet Conteneur, German full - container load ) is an economic term from the cargo container traffic. He referred to door-to - door transport of the entire container. Full Container Load (FCL) may relate to shipping and to the general cargo transport by lorry. You will also find in intermodal transport with Confidence Tung freight train or aircraft application.

Unlike Less Container Load ( LCL ), where there are different part loads ( cargo) of a standard freight container, accepts the FCL shipping company from the shipper an already fully loaded and sealed by the customs office container for shipping, as the delivery is not assembled and is thus taken over "from one source ".

Full Container Loads are uneconomical for freight forwarders, since (which are normally allowed in principle in standardized percentages ) about not allowed here payloads can be achieved no other income.

The responsibility is in loading the sender and for the discharge of the receiver of the goods.

Economic Importance

Full Container Loads win in international road transport in importance, as can be due contain the prescribed time of sealing the smuggling of goods to foreign countries (but also human beings). Thus, the so-called transit countries are not exposed to danger on this point.