The practice of consolidating a number of individual items into a single shipping unit for easier storage and handling. Shipping containers, or intermodal freight containers [IMF] to give them their correct name, are a good example of unitisation, and they have transformed the packing, storage, handling and moving of freight. See also Container.
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