Stowage on board a container vessel is restricted to the external dimensions of either a 20' or 40' container. The container cell guides on a container ship allow the containers to be loaded and stowed one on top of the other or alongside of each other. If the length, width, height of your cargo exceeds the external dimensions of a container in any direction, the available space on-board a vessel is reduced as other shipper's containers cannot be stowed either alongside of, or on top of your container.
Containers are considered to be OOG if the measurement of the cargo contained therein exceeds the unit dimensions in either length/width/height, singularly or a combination of each dimension and the OOG fee is applied accordingly.
In effect, an 'Out Of Gauge' (OOG) container takes up additional space on-board a vessel, therefore an additional fee is applied to OOG shipments to compensate for the lost space capacity of the vessel/voyage.
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