Guides
Short guides for the questions buyers in India ask before paying for a container: what fits, what the grade means, what to check, where it can stand, and what the tax and the transport add.
Before you choose
- Container sizes and dimensions: inside size, door opening, volume, tare and payload of every common box, side by side; then one guide per size: 20 feet container size, 40 feet container size, 40 HC container dimensions and 45 ft container; the door dimensions of every type; container weight, empty and loaded, with a container number checker and a VGM calculator; twist locks and corner castings, the fittings that hold a box down.
- Reefer container: how a refrigerated container works, its temperatures, its power and its sizes.
- Open top container, open side container, half height container and flat rack container: what they carry, their sizes and how they differ.
- Container grades explained: one-trip, cargo-worthy, wind and water tight, as-is, and how sellers in India use the words.
Before you pay
- How to inspect a used container: the checks that take twenty minutes and save a bad purchase.
- GST on shipping containers: the rate, the margin scheme for second-hand boxes, rentals and invoices.
- Importing a container into India: customs duty, IGST and the rules for second-hand boxes.
- Shipping container manufacturers in India: the ISO container factories we could verify, the public scheme, and how to check a supplier.
- Container yard: what a container yard, a CFS, an ICD and an empty depot are, their charges, and how to buy a used box from a yard.
Before the truck comes
- Container foundation, site preparation and unloading: supports under the corners, height above floods, access, and the four ways to unload.
- Permission to place a container: what the building rules of Delhi, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Chennai, Kerala and Telangana say about containers, terraces and farmland.
- Container house cost in India: the box, the conversion, the foundation and the transport, added up from the survey.