About Global Cargo Insight

Global Cargo Insight is an independent reference for freight shippers. It collects published freight rules, carrier equipment specifications and industry standards into tables and calculators that show where every number comes from.

What this site is

The site covers the figures people need when they prepare or check a shipment: LTL freight class by density, pallet sizes, container dimensions, cubic meters, and air freight chargeable weight. Every table cites its source document and the date it was last checked. Calculators read the same data as the tables and are tested on every update. The full list of documents is on the sources page.

What this site is not

Global Cargo Insight is not a carrier, broker or freight forwarder. We do not quote rates, book shipments or sell freight services, and we have no business relationship with the carriers whose published documents we cite. The final class, weight and charges for a shipment are always set by the carrier that moves it.

We also do not publish the NMFC commodity item database, which is a licensed product of the National Motor Freight Traffic Association (NMFTA). For item lookups, use NMFTA's own ClassIT+ service.

Who runs it

The site is written and maintained by its editor, who publishes under the pen name Owen Hartley. More on how the editor works is on the editor page, and the rules for sourcing and corrections are in the editorial policy.

History of this domain

From roughly 2020 to 2024, the globalcargoinsight.com domain belonged to a different publication: a news site covering air and ocean cargo. That publication is no longer operating. This site has no connection to its former owners or writers, does not republish its articles, and is not a continuation of it. Old article addresses from that site return a "gone" status.

Contact

Corrections, questions about a source, and suggestions are welcome at contact@globalcargoinsight.com. Details are on the contact page.