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What does full container load (FCL) mean in freight forwarding?

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F / Full container load (FCL)

When yours are the only contents to be conveyed in an individual shipping container, the shipment is known as a full container load, abbreviated to FCL. The term denotes purely that the shipping container is occupied solely by your goods and nobody else’s.