If you find yourself in need of shipping highly important or sensitive equipment, you would be advised to choose the most suitable transit case, protective case or packing case based on your equipment and its specific nature and dimensions.

However, two equally important factors to consider in this regard are the aspects of handling and transport, which also play a crucial role in getting your coveted equipment to its destination safe and hassle-free.

To this end, this post will discuss the importance of these two aspects and shed some light as to how they influence case performance.

Transport:
The transport aspect of the shipping of your equipment largely depends on the size of the equipment. If you are looking at shipping smaller goods ranging from a few grams to a few kilos, chances are that the case will be shipped by courier.

During this process, the protective case will likely be loaded and offloaded onto a series of courier trucks and other courier vehicles manually, and if it is of the sensitive nature, then there is a high likelihood that the case may face damage as a result of human negligence.

Apart from this, there is also the chance that the case can drop, bounce around or tumble at the back of the trunk as there are usually no measures taken to avoid this from happening. This leaves the case vulnerable to damage on any side, edge or corner.

Larger items, on the other hand, are likely to be shipped by pallet trucks or forklifts which are specifically designed to handle items of this weight category. However, its safety depends on the ability and experience of the forklift operator as there are still lots of things that can go wrong.

For instance, when a large case is being lowered by using a forklift, the odds are that one edge or corner of the case is likely to make contact with the ground first, thereby leaving it vulnerable to substantial damage. Also, taller cases with a lesser base volume are also prone to tip over and this will result in substantial damage as well.

Handling:
This particular aspect, in the simplest terms, refers to how the case will be held and moved around from Point A to Point B and this aspect as well depends. on the size of the case to a large extent.

Smaller cases are likely to be carried by one or two individuals and there is always the possibility of rough handling or worse, dropping of the cases. The risk is even greater when two or more people are involved, as even a lack of co-ordination between them leaves the case vulnerable to damage.

Larger cases, as mentioned earlier, are likely to be handled by forklifts. Now suppose your case is about a hundred kilos are lesser, chances are that it will be placed on a pallet and it is worth noting that the cases  retro clubs may not always be strapped onto the pallet, which means that there is a possibility of the case falling off the pallet whilst in the air.

There is also the likelihood that the forklift operator may lower the case too soon and not close enough to the ground (there exists a general rule of about 8-12 inches of drop height depending on the size of the case.