Search This Blog

Monday, February 22, 2010

SOME BASICS - BAGGED CARGO - JUMBO BAGS

Dear (s)


This is a common sight as one travels on road. – cargo in bags transported from place to place





When goods are transported from place, a primary aspect is of packing or placing goods inside something to enable them transportable. Though there are various functions of packaging – broadly Primary, secondary and tertiary. In a way the protective function is of utmost importance as also the ease of handling. Packaging must protect the goods from loss, damage and theft and should be convenient to handle.


In day to day life, we come across so many such things – simply think of the rice in bags, the conventional ones. As you could easily discern, they are conventionally standardized ones – i.e., 50 kg bags when bought in rice market and in small quantities of 5/10/15/20 kgs for invidiuals.


The major problem involved when goods are to be transported to a far off place involving multiple handling, is that there have to be loaded individually unlike the intermodal containers or when in bulk. These would fall under the genre of breakbulk i.e., extraction of a portion of cargo from the ship or from other carrying modes.


Whilst material of value sold in exact quantities are packed in a standardized manner with precision, items of lesser value are put in to bags and then weighted. Occasionally you could also come across jumbo bags – big bags where material is kept inside. In these one bag might differ in weight and volume from the other but materially would be traded in total – price for all the bags put together.




This is a lorry carrying such cargo in jumbo bags. Here the material is barite, a mineral consisting of barium sulfate. This is mostly used as a weighting agent for drilling fluids in oil and gas exploration. Other uses are in car, electronics, TV screen, rubber and glass ceramics and paint industry. Although baryte contains a "heavy" metal (barium), it is not considered to be a toxic chemical by most governments because of its extreme insolubility.


With regards - S Sampathkumar

4 comments:

  1. You put one foot up and then come up only halfway and stop.
    If you really wanna challenge your leg, you can use big asses
    live free it as stabilizer. Up big asses live free and lower
    Reach and in. These are very inexpensive and can add a lot more balanced than
    the other? Okay, the first lunge that I'm gonna talk
    about, I'm gonna keep going because you know what?


    Feel free to visit my webpage; whooty

    ReplyDelete
  2. Sometime few educational blogs become very helpful while getting relevant and new information related to your targeted area. As I found this blog and appreciate the information delivered to my database.Cargo to Pakistan

    ReplyDelete
  3. I constantly like to read a top quality content having accurate info pertaining to the subject and the exact same thing I found in this article. Nice job.ali cargo to Pakistan

    ReplyDelete
  4. This blog helped me to understand the fact that even a simply written article can be best over thousands of other highly qualified no-meaning articles. So always keep in mind that use simple but accurate parameters for your blog. cargo to pakistan

    ReplyDelete