| Customization: | Available |
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| Application: | Shipping Containers |
| character: | Corrosion Resistant |
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Container Twistlock: The Guardian of Cargo Transportation Safety
In the modern cargo transportation system, container transportation has become a crucial part of global logistics due to its high efficiency and safety. The container twistlock, as a core component connecting the container and the transportation carrier, shoulders the important responsibility of ensuring the safety and stability of transportation, and is an indispensable part of the entire logistics chain.
| I. Product Overview | The container twistlock is specifically designed to firmly connect the container to transportation vehicles (such as semi-trailers, train carriages), ship decks, or other load-bearing structures. Through its ingenious mechanical structure, it achieves a tight fit with the container corner fittings, ensuring that even in the face of complex road conditions, adverse weather, or ship vibrations during transportation, the container can still remain stable without sliding, tipping over, or other dangerous situations, effectively preventing damage to the goods and threats to personal safety. |
| II. Structure and Principle | 1. Structural Composition: It mainly consists of a lock body, a lock head, a handle, and connecting components. The lock body is usually forged or cast from high-strength steel, with excellent compression and tensile resistance; the lock head has a unique shape, mostly in the shape of a mushroom head, which precisely fits the oval hole of the container corner fitting; the handle is used to operate the opening and closing of the twistlock, and its design conforms to ergonomics, making it easy for the staff to operate. |
| 2. Working Principle: When the container is hoisted onto the transportation carrier, the lock head of the twistlock is aligned with the hole of the container bottom corner fitting and inserted. Then, the handle is rotated. The lock head rotates accordingly. At a specific angle (usually 90 degrees or 70 degrees), the lock head tightly engages with the inner wall of the corner fitting, firmly fixing the container. Some twistlocks are also equipped with a tightening device to further press down the lock head, making it closely fit the bottom surface of the corner fitting and enhancing the firmness of the locking, preventing the container corner from lifting during transportation. | |
| III. Product Features | 1. Exceptional Safety: It can withstand huge tensile and shear forces. After strict testing, it can bear a load of dozens of tons, effectively preventing the container from shifting or falling off during transportation, providing a solid guarantee for the safety of the goods. For example, for a common 40-foot container loaded with 20 tons of goods, the twistlock can ensure that the connection between the container and the vehicle body is stable and reliable during high-speed driving, emergency braking, turning, and other situations. |
| 2. Convenient Operation: The handle design conforms to the human operation habit. The staff can quickly complete the installation and disassembly of the twistlock without the need for complex tools, greatly improving the efficiency of cargo loading and unloading. In a busy port or logistics terminal, a skilled worker usually takes no more than 1 minute to operate a single twistlock. | |
| 3. Good Adaptability: It is suitable for various standard specifications of containers, including different sizes such as 20-foot, 40-foot, and 45-foot. At the same time, it can be used on different types of transportation carriers. Whether it is a semi-trailer for road transportation or a container ship for maritime transportation, it can play its role in fixing. | |
| 4. High Durability: Made of high-quality steel and treated with surface treatment processes such as hot-dip galvanizing and powder coating, it has excellent corrosion resistance and wear resistance. It can be used outdoors in harsh environments for a long time, effectively extending its service life and reducing maintenance costs. In a coastal salt spray environment, the twistlock can be used normally for several years without serious corrosion. | |
| IV. Application Scenarios | 1. Road Transportation: Widely used in container semi-trailers to ensure the stability of the container during long-distance transportation, frequent starting and stopping, and complex road conditions, and to ensure the safety of road transportation. |
| 2. Railway Transportation: Used on railway container flat cars to achieve reliable fixation of containers during railway transportation and meet the requirements of high-speed and heavy-load railway transportation. | |
| 3. Maritime Transportation: Installed on the deck and hatch covers of container ships. In the rough marine environment, it stabilizes the containers, withstands the impact of waves, and ensures the safety of maritime navigation. |
1. Q:What's your best price for this product?
A: We will quote you best price according to your quantity, so when you making an inquiry, please let us know the quantity you want.The more quantity the better price.
2. Q:How about the quality of this product?
A: Our products are certified to ISO9001 international quality standards. We compay have very strict Quality Control Systems.
3. Q:What material of the product can you supply?
A: Standard material we adopt .
4. Q:What's the delivery time?
A: For products that are in stock, we can ship it within 7 days after receiving your payment. For custom order, quantity within 29
tons, production time is 12-20 days after confirmed every details.
5. Q:What's your packing?
A:Our usual packing for this product is carton or pallet, we can also supply you packing according to your requirements.
6. Q:Can we custom our own logo or label on this product?
A: Yes, you can. we support logo print & stamping & label print, print will be free if the logo is not very complex.
7. Q:What about the warranty?
A: We are very confident in our products, and we pack them very well to make sure the goods in well protection.
To avoid any subsequent trouble regarding quality issue, we suggest that you check the goods once you receive them. If there is any transport damaged or quality issue, don't forget take the detail pictrues and contact us as soon as possible,we will properlyhandle it, make sure your loss to reduce to the smalle
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