Glossary
Terms & Glossaries of Shipping and Trading
Unitization
Unitization is the consolidation of a quantity of individual items into one large shipping unit for easier and faster handling through methods such as palletizing, stripping, slinging and containerization.
Unitization is the consolidation of a quantity of individual items into one large shipping unit for easier handling, loading one or more large items of cargo onto a single piece of equipment, such as a pallet.