What is a tray?

The Chinese national standard "logistics terminology" defines a pallet as a horizontal platform device for loading, stacking, handling, and transportation of goods and products placed as a unit load. As a kind of container equipment similar to a container, pallets are now widely used in production, transportation, warehousing and distribution, and are considered to be one of the two key innovations in the logistics industry in the 20th century. As an important loading, unloading, storage and transportation equipment in the logistics operation process, pallets play an important role in the modern logistics.

The benefits brought by the trays to the modern logistics industry are mainly reflected in the unitization, standardization and standardization of the packaging of goods, the protection of goods, the convenience of the logistics of logistics and commercial goods transportation, the improvement of transportation efficiency, and the reduction of transportation costs; The three-dimensional, automatic distribution of goods; mechanization and automation of the loading and unloading of goods, improving the efficiency and speed of loading and unloading; information processing of goods and information to improve the level of modern logistics system management. Therefore, although the tray is small, its role cannot be ignored. At present, the number of pallets has become an important indicator of the level of logistics modernization in a country.