What is LTL shipping? What is the difference between LTL consignment and bulk?

The types of railroad cargo transportation are divided into whole wagon, LTL and container.

The weight, volume or shape of a batch of goods need to be transported in more than one truck, should be consigned by the whole truck; not enough conditions for transportation of the whole truck, according to the LTL consignment

transportation; in line with the conditions of container transportation, can be consigned by the container. For LTL consignments,

the minimum volume of a piece cannot be less than 0.02 cubic meters (except for a piece weighing more than 10 kilograms), and each consignment shall not exceed 300 pieces.

The following goods are not allowed to be shipped on LTL basis:

Goods that need to be refrigerated, insulated or heated for transportation;

Dangerous goods that are restricted to be handled on a full-truck basis;

Dirty goods that are easy to contaminate other goods;

Bees;

Goods that are not easy to be counted in terms of the number of pieces;

Active goods that have not been packed in containers (the Railway Bureau). Except for those which can be transported as LTL in the pipeline);

Goods whose weight is more than 2 tons, volume is more than 3 cubic meters or length is more than 9 meters in one piece of cargo (except for those which are confirmed by the station of origin and do not affect the loading and unloading operation in the transfer station and the station of arrival).

Cargoes transported by rail are carried in pieces and by weight. However, the following goods, when transported in full wagons, are carried only by weight, without counting the number of pieces:

. Bulk loads;

2. Pieces of goods with the same specifications (specifications within three kinds are regarded as the same specifications), a batch of more than 2,000 pieces; different specifications, a batch of more than 1,600 pieces.

Full truckloads and goods transported in containers shall have their weights determined by the shipper; LTL goods, except for standard weights, marked weights, or goods with weighing lists and goods with one piece of weight exceeding the maximum weighing capacity of the weighing machine at the station, shall have their weights determined by the carrier, and the weighing charge shall be assessed and collected.

Freight and containerized cargoes are carried from the time when the receipt of the goods by the sending station is completed, the loading of the whole cargos is completed, and the sending station stamps the station's date on the cargo waybill.

Bulk cargo: usually refers to the goods ordered by the guest is not enough for a container transportation. Instead, it is consolidated with other shipper's goods.

There are also items that do not need to be packaged and are in pristine condition. Such as coal, mineral sand, grains, fertilizers, feed, barley and so on.