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I am Mark Nash the owner of UPakWeShip and hope you enjoy this presentation. As they say a picture is worth 1000 words, so hopefully you will get a much better idea of how to load a shipping container after watching this. Some of the pictures are taken by our customers and our staff so they are not all professional perfect posing photos but more of a hands on this is how its going to happen deal. I hope you like it and please email or call me with any questions.Cheers & Happy PackingMark Nash1 866 868 6386 or 843 225 7217 move@upakweship.com Please follow me on twitter @UPAKWESHIP

Be PreparedThe first trick about loading a shipping container is being prepared. You need to have everything packed into boxes and taped up with your name and piece number on each item. The piece number on each box will have to correspond to a packing list that you will have to prepare. (See our How to prepare a packing list presentation.) Furniture needs to be wrapped in movers blankets or bubble wrap and secured with packing tape. Everything needs to be downstairs either in a room by the front door ready for a quick load or a garage. If the weather is looking good may be you want to risk putting everything on the driveway ready but that’s up to you!

Have A Load PlanBefore the container truck arrives you need to have a plan of how to get everything up into the container. The container is going to arrive on a back of a truck so it will be about 4 feet off the ground. Here are the options:

1/ Have about 4 people on the ground and 2 people in the container and lift everything up onto the back ledge of the container. (most common)2/ Hire a local mover to provide 3 men and a walk ramp to come and help you load everything. (most relaxed)3/ If you just have a few heavy pieces of furniture to load, may be hire a truck with a tail lift for the day to lift the items up and reverse up to the container. (most easy for pianos etc.)4/ Hire a load ramp / walk ramp from a you haul or hire place or may be a local mover. (most convenient)5/ Make a ramp out of wood or metal that you can walk up. (most tricky)6/ Hire a full service mover to do it all for you. (most expensive)

Moving Day Have everything downstairs in a front room, garage or driveway if it’s a nice day ready for when the truck arrives with the container.

I would suggest if you have one, putting a mattress that is in a mattress bag in first to give the load a cushion at the front of the container followed by the heavy items. My reasoning is get the heavy stuff done first while your still have the energy! You might find its easier to wrap moving blankets around the items in the container as it is sometimes difficult to grip and lift heavy items that are wrapped in blankets or bubble wrap. If this is the case, don’t forget to tape the blankets in place so they don’t come off and mark them with a number so that the number will correspond with the packing list.

Any gaps or worries about items rubbing or scratching together place extra blankets between them.

Moving Day continued

Make sure you and your crew are all drinking plenty of water or Gatorade. Have a cooler near by stocked with drinks. You need to be loading in tiers and by that I mean load everything in a line side to side across the floor of the container with heavier things and work your way up towards the roof of the container, keeping everything nice and neat and tight. Once finished start a new tier in front of the one you have just completed.You do not need to load each tier to the ceiling but you do need to maintain the same height throughout the container so that nothing can fall down and damage itself, or something it hits.Try and gauge how high you need to go before the container arrives. You can do this by looking at your load of things and think how would this all fit into a single garage. Would it easily fit, would I need to stack it all in at least 5 foot high or it will be a squeeze if I load it up to the roof!

Moving Day continued

Bear in mind this container is not going to go upside down so it doesn’t matter if there is a gap between your items and the roof of the container. It might however be on the ship in a rough sea and the container could be swaying up to 45 degrees left or right so items need to be fitted in tight across the width of the container so that if this happens nothing will move. While the container is on a truck going to or from the port the driver might need to brake heavily causing your items to want to move forward so its important to have everything loaded across the floor from the front to the back so that if this happens, nothing will move. It’s a good idea to put another mattress at the back of the container near the doors again for cushioning and keeping everything in place in between. If everything is loaded nice and tight side to side and front to back then nothing can move. You don’t need to use ties or straps to secure things.

Container Bulkheads If you find out that you don’t have enough stuff to fill the container to the door at the back you still have options. Here are my suggestions:

1/ Place either plywood sheets or a mattress or bed where your load finishes to keep everything in place. Using some 8.5 ft. long,4”x2”s make a X from the bottom left side to the right top and bottom right side to top left side. Wedge tops into the corrugated grooves and nail bottoms into wood chocks and nail to the wood floor. A nail gun is very handy for this work. 2/ Realizing half way through loading that you wont have enough to get to the end, start tapering off the height you are loading and gradually reduce height so that you do have enough stuff to get the load to the rear doors and hold everything in place.3/ Use a telescopic load bar to hold everything in place and secure anything that might move with tie straps.4/ Use a combination of the above.

Lock & SealThe last thing you need to do once everything is loaded nice and tight and secure is shut the container doors and lock it with the security seal. This is done by pushing the long piece up through the hole in the container door lock and attaching the small piece from the top. Squeeze them together and that’s it, its locked and secure.

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The container gets either trucked or if inland possibly railed to the port of export.

The export documentation is completed with the shipping line and customs.

All Aboard!

The container is then loaded on the ship and off it goes to the destination port.

When the ship arrives at the destination the container is off loaded and cleared though customs.

Arrival Overseas

It is then trucked to your residence for you to unload. *except Australia where all containers have to be unloaded for AQIS inspection and delivered by moving van.

So to Recap 1/ Pack every thing tight side to side and front to end2/ Be prepared and have everything ready for loading when the truck arrives. (you only get 2 hours free for loading)3/ Have a load plan and think what alternatives are available if you don’t have a ramp.4/ Make sure the height stays consistent with your loading so nothing can fall down.5/ Use moving blankets to protect furniture.6/ Use plastic bags available in self store shops for mattresses and sofas to keep clean. Use additional moving blankets for additional protection if needed.7/ Loading is like an adult jigsaw, get every piece to slot in nicely.8/ Make lots of friends before you load, keep everyone hydrated.9/ Bubble wrap and Deodorant is your friend.10/ Take pictures and send to move@upakweship.com so we can share with others.11/ Think of it as a giant Tetris or 3D jigsaw game.

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