Shipping Container Corner Post

This is a steel cube fitted with an oval opening on the outside.

Shipping container corner post.

Sold in sets of 8 container corner castings or individually 200 lbs weight per set 25 lbs. 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. Bottom left bottom right and top left and top right. The floor consists of 28 mm laminated marine plywood.

The main structural components of a shipping container are the four columns which make up the corners of the container. Each corner of a container is fitted with a 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. 3 floor and cross members.

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. There are 2 each of 4 different marine shipping container corner castings per set. Meets the iso standard iso 1161 for container corner castings. These are of 2 types as shown in the diagram below.