How many GMA pallets fit in a 45ft High Cube?
24 GMA pallets (1,219 × 1,016 mm) fit in a 45ft High Cube in a single floor layer, turned to their best orientation — up to 48 if the load is under 1,349 mm tall and stackable.
Floor (one layer)
24
Best mixed orientation, pallets touching.
Double-stacked
48
Only if each loaded pallet is under 1349 mm.
Payload allows
39
At 700 kg per loaded pallet.
Binding limit
Space
The floor fills before the payload does.
Space runs out first
24 loaded pallets at 700 kg each is about 16,800 kg, inside the 27,700 kg payload — so space is the limit here. Above roughly 1,154 kg per pallet that flips, and weight becomes the constraint instead.
The floor layout
24 pallets on the 13.56 m × 2.35 m (44′6″ × 7′9″) 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 US GMA pallet (48 × 40 in), deck 150 mm.
- Interior 13.56 m × 2.35 m × 2.70 m, payload 27,700 kg (61,068 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
Put in your real dimensions and weights and the engine packs them into a 45ft High Cube — with the 3D layout, the weight distribution and an exportable loading plan.
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