Introduction to International Air Freight Transportation【悟空海运】
Civil Air Transport Aircrafts and Containers
Civil aviation transport aircrafts can be divided into narrow — body aircrafts and wide — body aircrafts according to the width of the fuselage. The width of narrow - body aircrafts' fuselage is about 3 meters. There is a corridor between the passenger seats and a lower module for loading goods, such as B737, B757, A318 and A320, etc. While the width of wide body - aircraftsz fuselage is more than 72 meters. There are two corridors and three rows of seats. Such aircrafts can carry goods in containers and bulk cargoes, such as B747, B767, B777, A310, A330 and A380, etc.
According to the purpose, aircrafts can be divided into the all 一 cargo carrier, all 一 passenger carrier, and passenger - cargo combination carrier. Both of all - cargo carrier's main cabin and lower cabin can hold goods. All 一 passenger carrier only hold goods in the lower cabin. And there are passenger seat in the front of the main chamber in passenger - cargo mix aircrafts, where the rear and lower cabin are available for loading the freight.
Aircrafts, as vehicles of international conveyance, it is critically important to consider the reasonable loading of goods since it may be constrained by limits in weight, capacity, cabin doors and cabin floor endurance.
At present, containers in the international air freight transportation mainly include containers and pallets. Containers can be divided into containers for air - land transportation, main cargo containers and lower hold containers, the first of which refers to those with 20 feet and 40 feet specifications and usually are used in all 一 cargo aircrafts and main cabin in passenger - cargo aircrafts for land - air and sea - air multimodal transportation. Main cargo containers, higher than 163 centimeters, can only be adopted in the all - cargo carriers and the main cabin of the passenger - cargo aircrafts. And the lower hold containers can only be placed in the lower cabin of broad 一 body aircrafts. While the pallets, with the standardized dimensions and four self - locking latches at the four edges, are made of the hard metals with laminations.
Introduction to International Air Freight Transportation【悟空海运】
