Shipping Container Corner Post

These openings serve to lift the containers or to secure them onboard a vessel truck railway wagon or to connect the container to another container.

Shipping container corner post.

Each corner of a container is fitted with a corner post. Meets the iso standard iso 1161 for container corner castings. Steels used in corner posts typically correspond to the specification astm a 572 a low alloy columbium or vanadium steel with a yield stress of 47 000 psi and an. 3 floor and cross members.

These are of 2 types as shown in the diagram below. Sold in sets of 8 container corner castings or individually 200 lbs weight per set 25 lbs. An illustrative post outlining the anatomy of a shipping container. This is a steel cube fitted with an oval opening on the outside.

Weaknesses here would be improper sections on the flooring not covering 3 cross members in other words a too short a piece of plywood flooring fitted this can lead to sagging and cracking. There are 2 each of 4 different marine shipping container corner castings per set. Bottom left bottom right and top left and top right. The eight corner castings of a container or a corresponding ctu have to be particularly strong since they work with the corner posts and the other basic components of the container frame to absorb the forces which lock units or lashings exert on containers when they are stacked on top of one another during handling and during transport.