Freight agent must know the ship the following characteristics: 1. The ship registration and ship tonnage. Each ship should have a nationality, should be in a national registry, and the right to fly the national flag. The gross register tons ( GRT ). Gross register tonnage is deducted from the gross register tons machine occupied space and crew living premises after the measured volume. The net register tons ( NRT ). Net register tonnage is deducted from gross register tons machine occupied space and crew living premises after the measured volume. The bulk volume. It is a ship can loading all the space, including a hatch and for loading and unloading cargo and opening in the deck occupied volume. The packaging volume. It is to be used for the package of goods all the space in the cabin. The gross tonnage ( DWT ). It is based on weight tons ship loading capacity. Loading capacity should be deducted from total deadweight tons of fuel, equipment, food and water weight. The load line. Load line mark is said not to endanger the safety of ship can load goods major limit. From the load line to the distance is known as freeboard deck. The classification. Classification of marine insurance is very important, because the ship delivery by high premiums than low class ships are less.

    Freight forwarders should also be aware of the following common carriage of goods ship types: 1 traditional liner. This type of ship with regular transport services, usually carrying scattered or small quantities of goods. The use of the ship's jumbo or crane loading and unloading of cargo, in the ship carried out by human cargo stowage. The semi container ship or half pallet ship. This type of ships carrying bulk cargo and container or prior loaded pallets, according to * * vehicle stowage, also can be in an open tank or container is loaded on deck. The container ship. It is designed for loading containers and ships. It uses its own handling equipment or the use of the shore crane to load and unload containers. Container ships of different types can be divided into several" generations", with 600TEU ~ 1000TEU ship as the first generation of container ship; 1100TEU ~ 1800TEU loading ability of a ship called the second generation container ship; to load 2000TEU ~ 3000TEU third container ships. Achieve the third generation container ship is width can through the the Panama Canal Panama ship. In fourth generations and have more loading ability of a ship, its width is larger, not suitable for the Panama Canal.