A Machine Fails in Transit for Three Reasons, and Packing Answers All Three.
Across thousands of marine-cargo claims the same three failure modes recur: corrosion from trapped humidity, mechanical damage from movement and shock, and handling damage from poor marking and weak lift points. A machine can leave the factory in perfect order and still arrive seized, mis-aligned or dropped, because the container is a hostile environment — sealed, humid, and swung between cranes. Good export packing is simply the disciplined defeat of those three forces, in that order of likelihood.
That is why the method below is a sequence, not a checklist of parts. You preserve the metal first, because no amount of strong timber saves a machine that rusts. You then immobilise and cushion it against the voyage. You then control the air inside the barrier. And finally you mark and document the package so the people who never see the contents still handle and clear it correctly. Skip a step and the others cannot compensate.