If you fill the container it's closer to your schedule rather than theirs and the customs at the other end won't delay your bike while they look at the other stuff packed in with it. You also reduce the risk of mix ups when the load is split down.
We export pumps all over the world. The worst case was one that disapeared into the shippers and customs mess and turned up 11 months later as a barbeque (some guy 200 miles away got our pump instead of his barbeque). Full containers only ever fall off the ship, if they make it they are OK.
Andy
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