Shipping container dimensions

Nominal interior dimensions, payloads and the pallet counts our own solver produces from them.

Container	Interior L × W × H (mm)	Tare	Max payload	Volume	EPAL 1 per tier
20 ft standard	5898 × 2352 × 2393	2,300 kg	28,200 kg	33 m³	11
40 ft standard	12032 × 2352 × 2393	3,700 kg	26,700 kg	67 m³	25
40 ft high cube	12032 × 2352 × 2698	3,900 kg	26,500 kg	76 m³	25

Interior dimensions and payloads vary between builders and operators, and the maximum payload permitted on a given movement is set by your carrier and by road weight limits — often well below the container rating. Confirm before booking.

The pallet counts are not copied from a chart: they come from the same geometry solver behind the load calculator on this site, run on the interior dimensions in this table.

Sources

Run your own load

Change the deck, the load height or the payload and the count changes with it.

Truck & container load calculator →Pallet sizes →

Written and maintained by Vincenzo Ceccarelli Grimaldi, Frankfurt am Main.