Reference
45' Pallet Wide
Two europallets side by side. Full internal dimensions, door opening, capacity and weights below.
- Inside length
- 13.560 m
- Inside width
- 2.452 m
- Inside height
- 2.684 m
- Door width
- 2.343 m
- Door height
- 2.670 m
- Capacity
- 85.0 m³
- Tare weight
- 4180 kg
- Max cargo weight
- 29820 kg
About the 45' Pallet Wide
A forty-five foot high-cube whose internal width has been increased just enough to take two standard 1200 × 800 mm europallets side by side across the box.
In a normal container those two pallets do not quite fit abreast, which leaves a dead strip of floor running the length of the unit. Removing it lifts the pallet count materially for the same voyage, and that is why pallet-wide equipment is common on European traffic where the europallet is the standard load unit.
Availability is the main constraint. Like other forty-five foot equipment it is not accepted on every service or inland route, and the pallet-wide width is itself a specialist build — both need confirming before the cargo is committed.
What it carries
How it is built
- A welded steel frame with corner castings at all eight corners, which take the crane spreader, the twistlocks that hold it to the deck and the lashings that secure it.
- Side walls and roof pressed from corrugated low-alloy weathering steel — the corrugation stiffens the panel, and the alloy forms a protective oxide layer instead of rusting through.
- Double doors at one end, closed by vertical locking bars with cam fittings that pull the door tight against the frame.
- A rubber gasket running the full perimeter of the door aperture, sealing against driven rain and dust.
- A floor of thick marine-grade plywood, usually film-faced, bolted onto steel cross-members that carry forklift wheel loads.
- Lashing points along the side rails and at floor level for securing cargo inside.
- Internal width is increased to roughly 2.45 m so two europallets sit abreast, while external width stays within ISO limits.
- The frame is built from steel beams, with side walls and roof in corrugated low-alloy steel.
- Double doors with bar locks, sealed by a rubber gasket running the full perimeter of the door aperture.
- The floor is corrugated film-faced plywood carried on steel U-beams.
- Fitting feet are screwed to all sides of the container for handling equipment.
Why it is used
- Running costs are low — maintenance is generally limited to panel dents, door seals and floor boards.
- Fully intermodal: the same sealed box moves by ship, rail and road without the cargo being rehandled at any interchange.
- Corner castings sit at ISO-standard positions, so any crane, spreader, chassis or railcar in the world can take it.
- Weatherproof and lockable, which limits both moisture damage and pilferage.
- The most widely available equipment there is, so a booking rarely fails for want of a box.
- The self-supporting, stackable frame also makes retired units useful for site storage and modular building.
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