The Freight per Garment You Costed, and the Freight the Container Bills

How to read this sheet

This sheet prices a stow, it does not plan one. Carton orientation, pallet patterns and how well several styles interleave are a load planner's problem and a solver's problem, and the single stow-efficiency figure here stands in for all of it - measure it from your own past shipments rather than trusting the default, because it moves the whole answer. The per-style freight column is what that style would carry travelling alone at its own density, which is useful for comparing carton specifications and wrong as an allocation across a mixed container: a dense style riding with a bulky one subsidises it, and splitting a shared bill fairly is a costing convention rather than a calculation. Container volume is nominal and internal; carriers measure the cargo, not the box, and a forty high cube that is sold as seventy-six will not accept seventy-six. Weight limits are the strictest of payload, road limits at both ends and any terminal cap, and the road limit is usually the one that stops the truck. Nothing here covers LCL, where the rate is charged on the greater of volume and a weight equivalent and a part container behaves quite differently. Finally, the rounding up of containers is the honest part and the most easily gamed: shifting a hundred cartons to the next shipment changes this answer more than any carton redesign, and whether that is a saving or a delivery failure is not a freight question.