ISO 6346

Intermodal (shipping) containers markings (ISO 6346) command line validator. The command line utility validates a container marking, accepting codes in 11 characters (e.g. RAIU 690011 4) or in the extended 15 characters format (e.g. RAIU 690011 4 25 U1).

Install

npm install -g iso6346

Usage

Help:

$ iso6346

  usage   : iso6346 <container marking code>

  examples: iso6346 CSQU3054383
            iso6346 CSQ U 305438 3 201G
            iso6346 RAIU 6900114 25U1

  db:
    equipements: 2903
    owners     : 3
    types      : 47

Correct code:

$ iso6346  RAIU 6900114 25U1

RAI U 690011 4  2 5 U1 ✔
  ↑ ↑      ↑ ↑  ↑ ↑ ↑
  │ │      │ │  │ │ │
  │ │      │ │  │ │ └─── type: Open Top - Idem + removable top members in end frames
  │ │      │ │  │ └─── height: 2895 mm
  │ │      │ │  │       width: 2436 mm
  │ │      │ │  └───── length: 6068 mm
  │ │      │ │
  │ │      │ └─── check digit: 4
  │ │      └─── serial number: 690011
  │ │
  │ └─────────────── category: freight container
  └──────────────────── owner: RAINBOW CONTAINERS GMBH
                               APENSEN
                               Germany

Code containing 2 errors:

$ iso6346  RAIU 6900115 25XX

RAI U 690011 5  2 5 XX ✘
  ↑ ↑      ↑ ↑  ↑ ↑ ↑
  │ │      │ │  │ │ │
  │ │      │ │  │ │ └─── type: ✘ unknown type
  │ │      │ │  │ └─── height: 2895 mm
  │ │      │ │  │       width: 2436 mm
  │ │      │ │  └───── length: 6068 mm
  │ │      │ │
  │ │      │ └─── check digit: 5 ✘ CHECK DIGIT ERROR. Correct check digit is: 4
  │ │      └─── serial number: 690011
  │ │
  │ └─────────────── category: freight container
  └──────────────────── owner: RAINBOW CONTAINERS GMBH
                               APENSEN
                               Germany

Credits

Inspired by beautiful project: https://github.com/meyermarcel/icm

Licence

MIT

Copyright (c) 2020 Giorgio Robino

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