By transportation personal things qualitative packing and competent loading in the container or a truck concern to number of major factors of their preservation. You can save having made the most part of packing independently. Packing should promote safety of the goods, prevent it from damages at transportation by all types of transport with the account of transship and also protect the goods from atmospheric influences.

Requirements to the packing, arising in connection with transportation: The box should be filled up to the end. It is necessary to take into account a way of transportation, distance and duration, Opportunity of an transship in a way, Temperature mode and humidity during the transportation time (a weather condition ), compatibility with other cargoes, etc.

The things subject to packing can be divided into the following categories conditionally:
1 . Tableware and other fragile subjects;
2 . Books and other not volumetric and heavy subjects;
3 . Furniture;

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1. Tableware and other fragile subjects Each fragile subject, as a rule, is turned separately in 1-3 layers of a packing paper or newspapers. Some identical plates it is possible to pack together, having shifted their one layer of a paper. Then the subjects wrapped up in a paper are densely stacked in cardboard boxes.

2. Books and other not volumetric and heavy subjects Heavy subjects pack into small boxes. Do not throw all in one huge box. It will make much more difficult a transportation . Books usually pack into small boxes of the 40 х40х40 sm size approximately since more volumetric packings turn out too heavy for manual moving. From the external side boxes stick with a wide sticky tape or a special packing plastic tape.

3. Furniture Each detail of furniture should be wrapped up separately. The mirror, glass and polished surfaces wrap up an exaggerated polyethylene film and if necessary add a layer of a paper above in order to prevent friction. If it appears insufficiently (in a case, for example, with glass table-tops, the big mirrors, etc.) them place in special boxes with a wooden skeleton and plywood planes or completely wooden.

Stacking All subjects should set in the container or a truck densely to each other. To avoid their displacement inside the truck sometimes special props, compression and grids are used. Thus more heavier and volumetric subjects load below and easier and fine - above.

In the West-European countries unified norms on packing the goods are accepted. The international organization on standardization (ISO) has developed instructions by which it is necessary to be guided at an export packing of the goods.
The sort of packing depends on its purpose and on the goods features.They distinguish external packing - container (boxes, cartons, flanks, containers, etc.) and internal packing inseparable from the goods. Quality of that and other packing depends on requirements which they should satisfy with. Requirements to packing can be conditionally divided into the common and special.
The common should provide physical safety of cargoes at their transportation, special are put forward by importers. The way of packing payment is brought into the contract:
inclusion of the packing price in the goods price , definition of the packing price at the percentage of the goods price , definition of the packing price separately. The container can also be returnable.With it the order of packing return is determined.
Correct and rational packing can be achieved only when there is an exact knowledge about requirements and process of transportation from an initial place up to final.It is necessary to have the detailed knowledge of the goods properties such as a physical condition, an exterior, color, weight, loading amount, behaviour in relation to physical and chemical influences etc. .
By sea transportation it is necessary to take into account pressure upon a cargo of other cargoes, and also lateral pressure under influence of a roll of a vessel, depth of holds and their sizes, the sizes of cargo hatches, an opportunity of penetration of extraneous smells and polluting substances.
By rail transportation the often overloads opportunity , pushes in a way as a result of braking and at maneuvering, the sizes of bridges, tunnels, and also dimensions, weight and the external form of a cargo package, a susceptibility to dampness is always taken into account .
At air transportation first of all the container should be as much as possible facilitated. For easily inflammable cargoes it should be fire-resistant and densely closed.
At automobile transportations the character of packing depends on a kind of the goods, carrying capacity of a truck, a condition of road and other terms.
The customs mode makes the demands to packing according to customs rules that has special value at collection of the specific customs from gross weight of the goods . Packing in this case should be whenever possible easier, especially for such goods which the container weight is great in relation to weight of the goods. It is necessary to notice, that the packing representing independent value or made of valuable materials, is imposed with special tax in addition to the goods taxation and it is necessary to take into account beforehand during preparation of the goods for shipment.
In many countries the legislation forbids import of the goods in the certain packing and in some countries import duties on separate kinds of packing materials (for example glasswares, metal sheets) exist.