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Shipping Container Code (ISO 6346)

International shipping container identification code per ISO 6346. Owner code (3 uppercase letters) + equipment category (U, J, or Z) + serial number (6 digits) + check digit (1 digit). Total 11 characters.

Shipping Container Code (ISO 6346)

geography.transportation.iso6346

International shipping container identification code per ISO 6346. Owner code (3 uppercase letters) + equipment category (U, J, or Z) + serial number (6 digits) + check digit (1 digit). Total 11 characters.

Domain
geography
Category
transportation
Casts to
VARCHAR
Scope
Universal

Try it

CLI
$ finetype infer -i "MSCU1234567"
→ geography.transportation.iso6346

DuckDB

Detect
SELECT finetype('MSCU1234567');
-- → 'geography.transportation.iso6346'
Cast expression
CAST({col} AS VARCHAR)
Safe cast pipeline
-- Normalise and cast in one step
SELECT TRY_CAST(finetype_cast(my_column) AS VARCHAR) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE finetype(my_column) = 'geography.transportation.iso6346';

JSON Schema

finetype schema geography.transportation.iso6346
{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/geography.transportation.iso6346",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "International shipping container identification code per ISO 6346. Owner code (3 uppercase letters) + equipment category (U, J, or Z) + serial number (6 digits) + check digit (1 digit). Total 11 characters.",
  "examples": [
    "MSCU1234567",
    "HLXU3456789",
    "CMAU6543210",
    "TRIU7890123",
    "MSKU2345678"
  ],
  "pattern": "^[A-Z]{3}[UJZ]\\d{7}$",
  "title": "Shipping Container Code (ISO 6346)",
  "type": "string",
  "x-finetype-broad-type": "VARCHAR",
  "x-finetype-transform": "CAST({col} AS VARCHAR)"
}

Examples

MSCU1234567HLXU3456789CMAU6543210TRIU7890123MSKU2345678

Aliases

container_codebic_code

Type Registry