How many Euro pallets fit in a 40ft Reefer?
23 Euro pallets (1,200 × 800 mm) fit in a 40ft Reefer in a single floor layer, turned to their best orientation — up to 46 if the load is under 1,250 mm tall and stackable.
Floor (one layer)
23
Best mixed orientation, pallets touching.
Double-stacked
46
Only if each loaded pallet is under 1250 mm.
Payload allows
41
At 700 kg per loaded pallet.
Binding limit
Space
The floor fills before the payload does.
Space runs out first
23 loaded pallets at 700 kg each is about 16,100 kg, inside the 29,000 kg payload — so space is the limit here. Above roughly 1,260 kg per pallet that flips, and weight becomes the constraint instead.
The floor layout
23 pallets on the 11.56 m × 2.29 m (37′11″ × 7′6″) interior floor, seen from above. Shaded pallets are turned 90° — that mix is what gets the count above a plain row-by-row fit.
The assumptions
- Pallet Euro pallet (1200 × 800 mm), deck 144 mm.
- Interior 11.56 m × 2.29 m × 2.50 m, payload 29,000 kg (63,934 lb).
- Loaded pallet assumed at 700 kg gross — the one figure that can't be derived from the vessel, so it is stated rather than buried.
- Maximum floor fit with pallets turned to their best orientation — the same basis as the widely quoted 11-in-a-20ft and 25-in-a-40ft figures. It is a geometric maximum: it assumes pallets touch, so allow a pallet or two fewer where a crew needs handling clearance, and check the door opening for the last row.
Your pallets aren't all 700 kg
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