Floor loading

Floor loading means cartons go onto the container or trailer floor, not onto pallets. You buy more cube and a cheaper origin pack-out; you pay in destuff labor, clamp/hand-unload time, and often a destination surcharge. The container loading calculator floor-packs cartons this way. If the receiving DC requires pallets, floor loading just moves the palletization cost to the other end.

Floor-loaded 50 × 40 × 30 cm cartons in a 20ft are a carton-grid problem, not a TI-HI problem. Palletized, you lose the pallet cube and the wasted deck around each GMA.