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Glossary

The container glossary

Cargo-worthy, CSC plate, gooseneck tunnel, cam rod lock. The container trade runs on words nobody explains to you. Here they are, defined honestly.

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Buying a used shipping container means reading listings written in a vocabulary you were never taught. Grades sound official but are not standardized. Parts have names that come off a cargo ship. Delivery equipment has three names depending on who is talking.

These definitions are written from a working yard in Woodlawn, Virginia. Where a term is used loosely in the trade, or means different things to different dealers, we say so, because that gap is exactly where people get sold the wrong box.

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Cam Rod Lock
A cam rod lock is the locking mechanism built into a shipping container's cargo doors: a vertical steel bar, one per...
Cargo-worthy
Cargo-worthy, often shortened to CW, is the grade name for a used shipping container that still has enough...
Conex box
A conex box is a plain, everyday name for a steel shipping container.
connex
Connex is a common spelling variant of conex, itself military shorthand for container express.
Container Broker
A container broker is a company that sells containers it doesn't own or stock itself, sourcing a unit from a depot...
Container chassis
A container chassis is a wheeled steel frame built to carry a shipping container over the road, with locking pins...
Container rain
Container rain is the trade nickname for condensation inside a steel shipping container: warm, humid air trapped...
corner castings
Corner castings are the eight cast steel fittings, one at each top and bottom corner of a shipping container, that...
corner post
A corner post is the vertical steel column at each of a container's four corners, running from the bottom corner...
corrugation
Corrugation is the wave pattern pressed into a container's steel side and roof panels, running vertically on the...
Corten steel
Corten steel, also called weathering steel, is the 14-gauge corrugated steel used for shipping container walls and...
Crane set
A crane set is a container placement done by crane rather than by sliding the box off a truck bed: a crane lifts the...
crossmember
A crossmember is one of the horizontal steel floor joists that run side to side beneath a container's plywood floor,...
CSC plate
A CSC plate is the metal data plate riveted to a shipping container's left door, required under the Convention for...
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