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.

What is Unitization?

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.