🔍 Key Concepts

• Difference between gross weight, tare weight, and net weight for cargo or containers • How a cargo manifest describes the total weight being shipped • Which parts of a shipment (contents vs. packaging/container) are included in each weight term

💭 Think About

• Think about what shippers need to know for stability and stowage: do they care only about the cargo, or cargo plus its immediate packaging? • Consider how tare weight and net weight are usually defined and then infer what gross weight must represent. • Ask yourself: if you remove just the contents from a box, which answer choice matches what is left out of the gross weight?

✅ Before You Answer

• Be clear on the definition of tare weight (weight of the empty container/box). • Be clear on the definition of net weight (weight of the cargo/contents only). • Then determine which option correctly represents gross weight based on those two definitions.