Packaging format
Wholesale Bottled Water, Soft Drinks & Juice
Bottled lines run from 500 ml single-serve to 1.5 litre, and the pallet build changes sharply across that range.
Beverage Bottles in international trade
A 500 ml bottle is customarily packed 24 to a case at 10 cases per layer and 8 layers — 80 cases, or 1,920 bottles per pallet. A 1 litre bottle drops to 12 per case and 63 cases. A 1.5 litre runs 6 per case and 40 cases. The larger the bottle, the fewer cases a pallet carries and the heavier each one becomes.
Water is the format where weight decides the load. A 20 ft container is limited to 28,200 kg and a 40 ft to 26,600 kg, and a full load of bottled water reaches that ceiling well before it runs out of floor. Planning a water shipment on pallet positions alone overstates what the container can lawfully carry.
That constraint is also the argument for mixing. Pairing dense bottled lines with lighter canned ones brings a container closer to both limits at once, which is the practical reason most export orders are consolidated rather than shipped single-brand.
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Trade questions
How many cases fit on a pallet of bottles?
500 ml commonly builds to 80 cases per pallet (10 per layer, 8 layers), 1 litre to 63, and 1.5 litre to 40. These are customary export configurations and are confirmed per SKU before quotation.
Why does bottled water reach the weight limit before the container is full?
Water is dense and its packaging adds little volume relative to its mass. A container of bottled water typically reaches the 26,600–28,200 kg payload ceiling with floor positions still unused, so the payload figure rather than the pallet count governs the order size.
Can bottled and canned lines ship together?
Yes, and it is usually the better plan. Combining heavier bottled lines with lighter canned ones uses both the weight and the volume of the container, and the whole load moves under one consolidation and one documentation set.
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