Plan every load
before a forklift
moves.

The example load 30 of 30 pellets loaded 40' standard · 12 ms solve

Cargo Loading works out how your pellets fit a shipping container — turned, stacked and spaced to your rules — and shows the result in 3D for your team to check, adjust and load from.

[ 3D container load planning ]

Supports 20 ft, 40 ft, 40 ft High Cube, 45 ft High Cube and custom containers, in millimetres and kilograms.

Why it exists

Know the load before you lift it

A loading plan is easier to follow than to improvise. Cargo Loading checks every arrangement against your space, weight and stacking rules before the container is opened, so the dock works from a plan everyone has already seen.

The planner

The whole load, in one 3D view.

Orbit the container, step through the load pellet by pellet, and select any pellet to see its size, weight, stack and the clearance on every side.

The Cargo Loading planner: a 40 ft container drawn in 3D with 30 numbered, colour-coded pellets, input panel on the left and utilisation stats on the right.
Pellet 29 details: size, rotation, weight, stack layer and clearance to the door end and each wall.
Auto placement summary: 30 of 30 pellets loaded, with rings for 48% volume, 77% payload and 57% floor used.
  • 01

    Numbered on every face

    Each face prints its own size, so you can tell which way a pellet is turned.

  • 02

    Step through the load

    Reveal pellets in loading order, one at a time, or hide a type by colour.

  • 03

    Measure any gap

    Click two corners to read the distance between them, like a tape on site.

The plans page: saved loading plans as cards, each with a top-down view of its load and its pellet, volume and payload figures.
Plans Every saved load at a glance, drawn from above.
The plan report: the load in 3D beside container figures, utilisation rings and a colour-coded table of products, cartons and pellets.
Report A printable page for each plan, with Excel and PDF downloads.

What it does

From packing list to job card, in one place.

Four parts of one workflow. Each one starts from the work done in the last.

01 · Auto placement

Every pellet placed for you

Turned in 90° steps, stacked only on matching footprints and kept inside your payload.

See how auto placement works
02 · Manual placement

Adjust any pellet by hand

Drag, rotate with R, or restack. A move that breaks a rule turns red and will not land.

See how manual placement works
03 · Pellet planning

Plan each product once

Link a product to the carton and pellet it ships in. Every container plan starts from it.

See how pellet planning works
04 · Reports

Job cards for the loading bay

An Excel job card and an A4 PDF for every plan, made in your browser.

See how reports work

How it works

Five steps from a packing list to a loaded container.

  1. 1

    Set up your catalogue

    Add your products, cartons and pellets once. Each pellet plan records how a product's cartons stack on its pellet.

    Cartons on pallets stacked high on warehouse racks.
  2. 2

    Describe the container

    Pick 20 ft, 40 ft, 40 ft High Cube or 45 ft High Cube, or enter your own size. Set the payload, the gap between pellets and the stacking height.

    A container door data plate listing max gross, tare, payload and cubic capacity.
  3. 3

    Let it place the load

    Pellets stay upright, turn in 90° steps where it helps, and stack only on matching footprints, heavier below.

    A forklift loading pallets of goods onto a truck at a warehouse.
  4. 4

    Check and adjust

    Select a pellet to see its clearance to each wall. Move or rotate it by hand — the same rules still apply.

    A warehouse worker checking items against a clipboard.
  5. 5

    Hand over the job card

    Download an Excel job card and an A4 PDF. Both are made in your browser, named with the date and time.

    Two port workers in hi-vis reviewing a plan on a tablet beside stacked containers.

100+

Containers shipped

50t+

Cargo shipped every day

EU+US

Where our customers ship

In service · Europe and the USA

Load with confidence.

Teams across Europe and the USA plan their loads with Cargo Loading. More than 100 containers have shipped from its plans so far, and over 50 tonnes of cargo moves on them every day.

Plan a load with us

Pricing · Cargo Loading

Pricing without surprises

One joining fee, then a flat price per seat. No charge per plan, and none per container.

Stacked shipping containers and a loaded truck at a port at dusk.

Plans

One price for the whole app

Joining fee

$1,049 / once

Your accounts, container sizes and first plans, set up with your team.

Get started
  • Accounts set up for your team
  • Your container sizes added
  • Product, carton and pellet data loaded
  • First plans worked through together

Per seat

Every seat

$21 / seat / month

Every seat gets the whole app. There is no higher tier to move up to.

Get started
  • Auto and manual placement in 3D
  • Products, cartons and pellet plans
  • Excel job cards and A4 PDF reports
  • No charge per plan or per container

Included

$0 / while you subscribe

The help it takes to fit Cargo Loading to the way your floor works.

Talk to us
  • Customisation to suit your floor
  • Help loading your product data
  • Support for as long as you subscribe
  • No usage charges

No usage charges

What never appears on your invoice

Your bill is the joining fee and your seats. Everything below comes with every seat, at no extra cost.

A container ship seen from above on open water.
  • Per-plan charges

    Create as many loading plans as your team needs.

  • Per-container charges

    A 20 ft box and a 45 ft High Cube cost the same to plan.

  • Export fees

    Excel and PDF downloads come with every seat.

  • Upgrade tiers

    Every seat has the whole app. There is nothing to move up to.

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Excel job cards and A4 PDFs are built on your own machine. Nothing is sent anywhere to produce them.

Read our FAQ

Got a question about Cargo Loading?

It plans how pellets fit into a shipping container. You enter the container, your loading rules and what you are shipping; it places the load, shows it in 3D, and produces an Excel job card and a PDF for the loading team.

20 ft, 40 ft, 40 ft High Cube and 45 ft High Cube come preset with their dimensions and payload. Any other size can be entered by hand, in millimetres and kilograms.

Pellets stay upright and may turn in 90° steps. A pellet only stacks on one with the same footprint and the same or greater weight, and pellets taller than your height limit go on the floor with nothing on top. Within those rules it fits the most pellets first, then the most volume, then the tightest load.

Yes. Manual placement starts from the automatic result. Drag a pellet or a whole stack, rotate with R, remove with Delete, or add one back. A move that breaks a rule turns red and will not land, and Reset returns to the automatic load.

The plan lists every pellet left behind, with the reason — out of space or over the weight limit. Before that, it tries shifting and turning the pellets already placed to make room, and keeps the change only if more fit.

An Excel workbook laid out as a job card, with live formulas and set up for A4 landscape, and an A4 PDF with the plan's figures and views of the load from above, from both sides and from both ends.

Plans belong to your company. Anyone in it with editing rights can open, change or delete them, and each plan records who created it.

A one-time joining fee of $1,049, then $21 per seat per month. Setup help, customisation and support are included, and there are no charges per plan or per container.

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Tell us what you're shipping

Send a container size and a packing list. We will set it up and walk you through the result on your own goods.

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