Editing Containerization (section)

=== Less-than-container load ===
{{See also|less-than-carload}}
Less-than-container load (LCL) is a [[shipment]] that is not large enough to fill a standard [[cargo container]]. The abbreviation LCL formerly applied to "less than (railway) car load" for quantities of material from different shippers or for delivery to different destinations carried in a single [[Railway carriage|railway car]] for efficiency. LCL freight was often sorted and redistributed into different railway cars at intermediate [[railway terminal]]s en route to the final destination.<ref>{{cite book| title=This Fascinating Railroad Business |author=Henry, Robert Selph|author-link=Robert Selph Henry |publisher=The Bobbs-Merrill Company |year=1942 |pages=319–321}}</ref>

'''Groupage''' is the process of filling a container with multiple shipments for efficiency.<ref>Logistics Glossary https://www.logisticsglossary.com/term/groupage/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511110604/https://www.logisticsglossary.com/term/groupage/ |date=2021-05-11 }}</ref>

LCL is "a quantity of [[cargo]] less than that required for the application of a carload rate. A quantity of cargo less than that which fills the visible or rated capacity of an inter-modal container."{{citation needed|date=November 2011}} It can also be defined as "a consignment of cargo which is inefficient to fill a shipping container. It is grouped with other consignments for the same destination in a container at a container [[freight station]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.knownet.hhs.gov/log/transDR/Glossary/definitions.htm |title=The Federal Logistics SuperSite&nbsp;– The Federal Transportation Management Desk Reference: Glossary&nbsp;– Definitions |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041031151651/http://www.knownet.hhs.gov/log/transDR/Glossary/definitions.htm |archive-date=October 31, 2004}}<!-- Bot generated title --></ref>