EXPORT PACKING AND MARKING WORKMANSHIP AND MATERIAL PRESERVATION AND PACKAGING

EXPORT PACKING AND MARKING

EXPORT PACKING AND MARKING WORKMANSHIP AND MATERIAL PRESERVATION AND PACKAGING MATERIAL FOR BOXES AND CRATES OPEN CRATES TYPES OF picket BOXES GROSS WEIGHT STYLE LUMBER DIMENSION NOMIMAL THICKNESS STEEL burly SPACE NO larger THAN 600 millimeter APART PALLETIZING HAZARDOUS EXPORT MARKINGS COLOR cryptography SPECIAL HANDLING SYMBOLS CONTAINER SHIPMENTS 

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1.1 GENERAL

  A. The directions set forth herein ar prescribed to facilitate preservation, insure safe arrival, expedite Port clearance, and movement of fabric to its final destination.  Material and instrumentation being shipped to Hvacmep are subject to wide temperature and humidness variations.  Material should stand up to the hazards encountered in transit to the jobsite.

  B. Expenses or charges accruing as a results of the Contractor's failure to look at these directions shall be for the account of the Contractor.  THESE directions cowl THE OWNER'S MINIMUM necessities.

1.2 WORKMANSHIP AND MATERIAL

  A. attainment shall be in accordance with best industrial apply and therefore the necessities of applicable directions. There shall be no defects, imperfections, or omissions which might tend to impair the protection afforded by the package as a full.

  B. Material used for packaging, packing, wrapping, wet resistant barriers and corrosion bar shall be recognized brands and grades and shall adjust to the most effective standards.

1.3 PRESERVATION AND PACKAGING

  A. Waterproof case liners (in bag type, or associate over wrap made-up of asphalt laminated wrapping paper and sealed with waterproof adhesive) shall be used if merchandise ar prone to injury from wet.  All openings to instrumentation, like body of water and outlet piping, feed and discharge openings and electrical motors shall be blocked, capped or sealed with waterproof tape.

  B. Fragile articles shall be wrapped in crepe-cellulose packing (Kimpak) or some equally economical artefact material and floated in a very appropriate artefact material of physical properties not harmful to the article. chopped paper, popcorn, or wadding shall not be used.

C. exactitude instruments, workplace machines and different graduated mechanical instrumentation are encircled at intervals waterproof, clear, heat-sealed barrier baggage or shrouds beside an acceptable amount of drying agent so as to keep up a coffee ratio at intervals the package. this can be accomplished before packing the fabric within the shipping instrumentation.  The presence of a drying agent are shown on the external surface of the instrumentation.

  D. Screw cap closures on glass or metal containers should be tight, with an acceptable seal to stop loss of contents.

  E. Iron and steel articles not having a extremely finished surface shall be protected by the appliance of an acceptable look ready skinny film preservative (hard drying, cold application) that allows removal of the preservative with a crude base solvent.  Steel articles having extremely finished surfaces of easy style shall be protected by the appliance of an acceptable serious preservative (hot dip) that allows removal of the preservative with a crude base solvent.

  F. Articles shall be nested or packed firmly, however not tight, to cut back the quantity the maximum amount as doable.  Wasted area at intervals a package may be a supply of weakness and will increase shipping price.

  G. ample air area shall be allowed once filling liquid containers to supply area for enlargement and minimize internal pressure to resist exposure to extreme heat fifty five C (130°F).

  H. fibreboard boxes don't seem to be acceptable to be used as associate outer instrumentation aside from air freight.  All material shall be weather resistant and every one seams and joints shall be bolstered by the employment of waterproof pressure sensitive tape.

  I. Boxes or containers having a gross weight in far more than 220 pounds (100 kilograms), or those with length and breadth dimensions of 4 feet (1.2 meters) by 2 feet (0.6 meters) or a lot of, and advisement over a hundred and ten pounds (50 kilograms) shall be supplied with a minimum of 2 skids. every skid shall be a minimum of seventy millimeter (2 3/4") high and eighty millimeter (3 1/4") wide.

1.4 MATERIAL FOR BOXES AND CRATES

  A. Lumber shall be sound and well seasoned, of nominal dimension Stephen Arnold Douglas Fir or equal. items shall be free from all defects which will materially weaken them or interfere with nailing.  Knots shall be sound and not in far more than 1/3 breadth of the board.

  B. Knots shall be thus set as to not cause nailing interference that might lead to structural weaknesses.  All nails shall be cement-coated wire box nails. for max strength, they shall be driven into aspect grain of lumber.

1.5 OPEN CRATES

Crates shall be diagonally braced on all faces and every one 3-way corner joints shall be soundly created.  Crates should be created to support their own gross weight as well as packed contents, once supported by grab-hooks at the highest or by slings round the finish or base and to resist crushing action once pushed or affected by drag lines.

1.6 TYPES OF picket BOXES

Construction of the picket boxes shall adjust to the subsequent minimum standards:

GROSS WEIGHT

STYLE

LUMBER DIMENSION

NOMIMAL THICKNESS STEEL burly

SPACE NO larger

THAN 600 millimeter APART

Up to one hundred lbs.

(45 kilos) 4 25 millimeter ends, thirteen millimeter sides, prime and bottom 2 Straps - twenty millimeter

100 to three hundred lbs.

(45 to a hundred thirty five kilos) 2 or 4 25 millimeter throughout minimum breadth cleats eighty millimeter 2 Straps - thirty mm

300 to 600 lbs.

(135 to 270 kilos) 2 (Banded) X

(Palletized) 25 millimeter throughout minimum breadth cleats one hundred millimeter 2 Straps - thirty mm

600 to a thousand lbs.

(270 to 450 kilos) Modified-2

(Palletized) 38 millimeter throughout fifty millimeter x one hundred millimeter skids. commensurate  with weight and kind of load 1 Strap - thirty millimeter with corner plates, corner straps thirty millimeter

250-11,200 lbs.

(114 to 5,091 kilos) Open or sheath crates Commensurate with weight and kind of load. As needed.

1.7 PALLETIZING

Items acid-fast to wreck from wet, etc. and which might be handily secured to a pallet to facilitate handling shall be packed during this manner. for instance, tar paper shall be placed upright on pallets in teams of twenty five or thirty six rolls, lined with a cap created on twenty five millimeter (1") lumber, and shall be secured to the pallet with 2 thirty millimeter (1 1/4") straps.

1.8 METAL burly

Metal strapping shall be unannealed steel of 0.89 mm (.035") thickness applied with a stretching tool and secured with crimped steel seals.  Metal strap must be cut evenly at seal with no sharp edge.  Strap must be applied one sixth the distance from each end of box, and not more than 600 mm (24") apart.

1.9 BUNDLING

All things shall be quarantined to length and size and bundled into units to not exceed one thousand kilos (2,240 lbs.)  Apply thirty millimetre (1¼") wide steel strap with a stretching tool and secured with crimped steel seals spaced up to 900 millimetre (36") apart.

1.10 HAZARDOUS shipment

All outside containers and packing shall be marked and labeled  in accordance with rules and rules of applicable governmental agencies for all unsafe shipment like poisons, poison gas, ignitible liquids, compressed gases, burnable solids, corrosives, oxidizing materials, non-inflammable compressed gases, explosives and stuff.  Full use ought to be manufactured from international marking symbols where doable.

1.11 EXPORT MARKINGS

Each export shipping unit shall be marked in a minimum of 2 (2) places.  Marking color shall be used that manufacture high distinction with the background. once doable, writing shall be five hundred millimetre (2") tall, or larger, however ne'er but thirteen millimetre (1/2") tall.  Packages shall be numbered consecutively, beginning with No. 1.  Shipping units that can't be marked directly shall be marked as follows so as of preference:

  A. Labels -- Labels shall be written on sturdy, weather resistant material victimisation waterproof ink.  Labels shall be appendant to the shipping unit by waterproof glue of such a grade on stand up to perennial wettings.

  B. Placards -- Placards shall be created of exterior grade plyboard of minimum thickness of half dozen millimetre (1/4") or of galvanized flat solid of a minimum thickness of zero.5 mm (.02").  Placards shall be firmly hooked up with chrome steel, galvanized or Cd plated steel, or non-ferrous hardware; wire, screws, bolts, nails, or staples.  If wire is employed, minimum acceptable wire diameter shall be one.5 mm (.06").

 C. Tags -- Tags shall be chrome steel, non-rusting metallic element alloy, brass, copper or sturdy plastic, of a minimum thickness of zero.5 mm (.02").  Tags shall be decipherably decorated or metal-stamped in characters no smaller than zero.5 mm (.02") tall.  Tags shall be hooked up within the same manner and with a similar material as placards.

  D. every box should contain a replica of the PACKING LIST and a reproduction copy of the packing list should be placed in an exceedingly waterproof envelope firmly mounted to the skin of the package.

NOTE:  Contents of every package should match packing list.

1.12 COLOR cryptography

  A. every shipping unit shall have a band a minimum of fifty millimetre (2") wide, painted around smallest girth.  On boxes and crates 3 (3) sides of every corner shall be painted in order that color coded marking is visible on all four (4) sides and on high.  On barrels, kegs, drums, tanks, bundles of pipe and rebar, and steel, a code daub shall be painted on or close to each ends of every shipping unit.

  B. Paint shall not be applied to any machined surface or to any surface ready for field fastening.  Exterior grade bright yellow paint shall be used for all color cryptography.

1.13 SPECIAL HANDLING SYMBOLS

  A. International symbols for special handling shall be used whenever applicable.  Symbols shall be applied with exterior grade paint, or waterproof ink in an exceedingly color that produces high distinction with the encircling background. simply broken material shall be marked "FRAGILE," and conjointly once needed, "HANDLE WITH CARE," "COOL STORAGE," and/or "USE NO HOOKS."

  B. Material that has got to be unbroken upright to stop injury, like machinery motors, engines, etc., shall be marked "THIS aspect UP," with arrows on all sides of box inform to high.

  C. once needed, because of length or unbalanced weight, crates or boxes shall have a middle of balance indicated by a painted or stenciled black stripe one in. wide on all sides, extending upwards from the lower aspect of sheating; the words, "CENTER OF BALANCE" shall seem in letters a minimum of one in. high, adjacent to stripes.

1.14 CONTAINER SHIPMENTS

  A. instrumentation compatible material shall be stuffed at origin and shipped in half dozen meter or twelve meter (20' or 40') containers to the utmost extent doable. Manufacturer shall request containers for stuffing at origin from the selected freight forwarder. things shall be blocked, bracketed and/or latched to stop movement among the instrumentation.

  B. A packing list should be hooked up to the right-hand forewall of the instrumentation close to the door.  Shipper should give enough house within the middle and therefore the high of the instrumentation for review.

NOTE:  Contents of the instrumentation should match packing list.

1.15 SHIPPING needs and suggestions

  A. Shippers of significant lifts and/or special instrumentation that should be slung solely with special lifting slings/rigs equipped by them and sent as a part of the consignment/package shall ensure:

1. Lifting gear shall be coated by a legitimate check certificate issued by a recognized authority and a replica shall be created accessible to the consignees, and/or their appointed Customs Clearance Agents in Hvacmep, for manufacturing to the Port Authority at the electoral port before the commencement of discharge.

2. Such allotted lifting gear shall be declared on the acceptable Bill of consignment, at the side of the instrumentation to be handled therefore on guarantee Customs clearance of the rig.

  B. Shipper shall observe and absolutely suits Hvacmep Ports Authority Rules and rules that ar applicable to vessels quite fifteen (15) years mature.  Shippers shall suits the Hvacmepn age needs of the on board instrumentation and vessel on that they're shipping the shipment.

  C. once getting ready product for cargo to Hvacmep, Shippers shall suits the following:

1. Shipper ought to bear in mind that inner packaging, like hermetically sealed synthetic resin baggage to guard special instrumentation, together with electrical product and exactness machinery is also cut open throughout Customs review upon receipt of the package into the dominion of Hvacmep.  A secondary suggests that of packaging ought to be afforded to insure product protection whenever sensible.

2. All packages are subject to handlings quite that commonly related to purpose to purpose ocean instrumentation movement.  Packaging destined to Hvacmep should be capable of withstanding such additional handlings.