Why pallet size is not designed to perfectly fit the standard container ?

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The image show the pallet arrangement in the standard 20ft container. I wonder why the pallet is not design to be perfectly fit to the wide of container when aligning.

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The shipping container and pallet where invented / developed independently and for different purposes.Only later, people started putting pallets into containers.

As seen in the picture, beside the *standard* containers, there are now also *palletwide* containers, which have a different size so pallets can be neatly fitted.

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