{"id":1244,"date":"2017-02-14T22:40:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T22:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/cc\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2017-02-14T23:24:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T23:24:37","slug":"what-is-chargeable-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/what-is-chargeable-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"What is &#8220;Chargeable Weight&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Airlines determine freight charges by \u201cweight\u201d. \u00a0But imagine you\u2019re shipping a pallet of styrofoam. Airlines, as well as ocean and ground carriers, have a way of analyzing density to determine if the gross weight or the \u201cvolume weight\u201d is considered the \u201cchargeable weight\u201d. \u00a0IE. \u00a0Styrofoam would certainly use volume weight based on the formulas below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Again, the weight applicable for calculating freight charges is either the volume weight or gross weight. \u00a0The greater of the two is considered the chargeable weight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Calculating Volume Weight<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Air Freight:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1 cubic meter = 167 kgs<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1 cubic meter = 368 lbs<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Trucking<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1 cubic meter = 143 kgs<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1 cubic meter = 315 lbs<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you need help calculating cubic meters:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1 cubic meter = 61024 cubic inches<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1 cubic meter = 35.3 cubic feet<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">** Many LTL trucking companies require dimensions to determine rates, NMFC and freight classes. \u00a0If you only have cubic meters (CBM), a quick way to estimate dimensions is by multiplying the CBM by 32. \u00a0This will give you an estimate for the height in inches. \u00a0If there are multiple pallets, divide by the number of pallets. \u00a0If you don\u2019t know the number of pallets, I would estimate the average height of 50 inches (conservatively) to calculate the total number of pallets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Example 1: If a shipment is 2 CBM, (2 CBM * 33) equals 64. \u00a0Thus, you can estimate the dimensions of this shipment as being 48\u201d x 40\u201d x 64\u201d.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Example 2: If a shipment is 3.3 CBM and is two pallets, (3.3 CBM * 32) equals 105.6. \u00a0Thus, you can estimate the dimensions of this shipment as being 2 pallets * 48\u201d x 40\u201d x 52.8\u201d.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Example 3: If a shipment is 5 CBM and don\u2019t know the number, (5 CBM * 32) equals 160. \u00a0Thus, you can estimate 4 pallets (160 divided by 4) and the dimensions of this shipment as being 4 pallets * 48\u201d x 40\u201d x 40\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines determine freight charges by \u201cweight\u201d. \u00a0But imagine you\u2019re shipping a pallet of styrofoam. Airlines, as well as ocean and ground carriers, have a way of analyzing density to determine if the gross weight or the \u201cvolume weight\u201d is considered the \u201cchargeable weight\u201d. \u00a0IE. \u00a0Styrofoam would certainly use volume weight based on the formulas below.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}