{"id":6401,"date":"2019-11-18T13:34:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T18:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/?p=6401"},"modified":"2019-11-19T00:15:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T05:15:41","slug":"what-are-the-differences-between-a-container-number-and-a-seal-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/2019\/11\/18\/what-are-the-differences-between-a-container-number-and-a-seal-number\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the Differences Between a Container Number and a Seal Number?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/2019\/11\/04\/what-is-a-container-number-explanations-with-examples\/\">container number<\/a>, also known as container identification number, is a reference number assigned to a freight container for legal and commercial purposes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/2019\/11\/12\/what-is-a-container-seal-number-explanations-with-examples\/\">Container seal number<\/a> is an identification number of a container seal. Each container seal has an individual identification number.<\/p>\n<p>Both container numbers and seal numbers are important international transportation security and safety measures and monitored closely by customs offices during the import and import stages.<\/p>\n<p>On this post, I will identify the main differences between a container number and a container seal number.<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Differences\u00a0Between Container Number and Seal Number:<\/span><\/h4>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Easy to Locate \/ Hard to Locate:<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Container number is printed on three spots of each freight container: one on the doors end, one on the side wall and one on the top of the container.<\/p>\n<p>It is very easy to locate a container number.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, a seal number is affixed to each container seal, which is a small item.<\/p>\n<p>It is not easy to locate a seal number comparing to a container number.<\/p>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tracking a shipment:<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>It is possible to track a shipment by a container number. On the other hand you can not track a shipment by a seal number.<\/p>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">International Coding Standard:<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Freight containers are numbered by an international organization called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bic-code.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BIC (The Bureau International des Containers)<\/a> according to an internationally recognized ISO 6346 standard.<\/p>\n<p>Container seals are numbered by each seal producer or container liners according to their internal corporate rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A container number, also known as container identification number, is a reference number assigned to a freight container for legal and commercial purposes. Container seal number is an identification number of a container seal. Each container seal has an individual<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[538,258],"tags":[140,559,539,560],"class_list":["post-6401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-containers","category-logistics","tag-container-number","tag-container-seal-number","tag-containers","tag-seal-number"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.letterofcredit.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}