a large boxlike receptacle of standard design for the transport of goods

container, designed to fit within the fuselage of an aircraft, used primarily for airfreight or freight loads where part of the trip uses airfreight

all means to assemble goods for transportation, storage, handling and product protection in the supply chain which are returned for further usage, including for example pallets with and without cash deposits, as well as all forms of reusable crates, trays, boxes, roll pallets, barrels, trolleys, pallet collars and lids

NOTE 1 The term returnable transport item is usually allocated to secondary packaging. But in certain circumstances also primary packaging may be considered as a form of RTI.

NOTE 2 Freight containers, trailers and other similar enclosed modules are not covered by the term returnable transport item.

NOTE 3 The term returnable transport equipment is considered to have the same definition as the term returnable transport item within an electronic data interchange environment.

intermodal transport units which are smaller than a standard 20-foot-ISO-Standard container or CEN-swap body

NOTE Small containers are also called medium containers or “less than container unit” (LCU).

NOTE The size of such LCU´s will be at least one ISO- or Euro-palette.

collation of goods to be moved

NOTE A packet can be a single unit, or a collection of smaller packets and items that will be bundled into a receptacle which will be carried in equipment (such as an ISO intermodal container) as a sub component of an AEI item. Packets are defined by the International Standards of JTC 1/SC 31, Automatic identification and data capture techniques.