The details usually comprise the total deadweight in each hold, heavy lifts, deck cargo, special cargo, livestock (if any), the ship's particulars (such as her draughts, freeboard, dimensions, bunkers, metacentric height) and ports of loading and discharging.
Iinkcukacha zidla ngokuba nobunzima bomthwalo bubonke apho kulayishwa khona iimpahla, iziphakamisi ezinzima, umthwalo womgangatho, umthwalo obalulekileyo, imfuyo (xa zikhona), iinkcukacha ngenqanawa kunye namazibuko okothula nokulayisha.