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STANAG 2827
STANAG 2827 materials handling in the field
Defence logisticians and suppliers of field materiel-handling equipment who plan or operate transloading points and need handling units, pallets and containers to interoperate across NATO forces.
STANAG 2827 sets NATO's principles for handling and transloading materiel in the field. NATO has not released it publicly; this page describes it from the Czech defence standard that implements it.
- Edition
- 8
- Published
- 2024-06-03
NATO has not released this STANAG publicly. It is NATO UNCLASSIFIED, and organisations that need it obtain it through their national standardization authority.
What it is
STANAG 2827 is the NATO Standardization Agreement on materials handling in the field, covering the publication APP-25. Edition 8 was promulgated in June 2024, sponsored by NATO's MC, MCLSB, CSS and SP committees.
NATO has not released STANAG 2827 or APP-25 publicly. This page describes them from a public national implementation, the Czech defence standard ČOS 399001 (5th edition, amendment 3, 2025), which states that it introduces STANAG 2827 edition 8 and APP-25 edition B into Czech use. A national implementation can add national requirements and reservations, so treat what follows as the Czech implementation's content, not as NATO's own text.
What the Czech implementation covers
ČOS 399001 sets parameters for a standard handling unit and lays down principles for transloading materiel, for organising field transloading points, and gives an overview of NATO members' materiel-handling and transport capability. Amendment 3 (2025) added requirements for container handling and container transloading, which it addresses by pointing to STANAG 2236 (AMovP-5) for placing, lifting and stacking containers and STANAG 2468 (AMovP-4) for loading and unloading containers, including onto and off railway wagons, rather than restating those requirements itself.
It groups materiel into palletised units, containerised units, non-palletised units and bulky goods, and names five methods for transloading a stack of pallets at a field point, a cross method, a W method, a V method, a rotation method and a crane method, each suited to a different terrain, stack layout or space constraint. An informative annex gives a general formula for estimating how many handling devices a task needs, from the volume to be moved, the load per cycle, the cycle time and the time available. A separate informative annex sets out a procedure for exercises that verify a nation's transloading capability for standard handling units on prepared and unprepared terrain.
The handling and rigging requirements it sets
Every handling unit must be packed and marked in line with STANAG 4280 and the Czech marking standard ČOS 814501. Where pallets are suspended for lifting rather than moved by fork, ČOS 399001 allows rigging of up to 2,000 kg per pair of pallets on a four-strap sling, and states that this slinging must not be used when the load is carried by helicopter. It prefers flat webbing straps at least 50 mm wide over chains or steel cables, and requires protective elements, such as corner pieces or rubber padding, wherever a strap could crush the load. For crane or swing-arm transloading, double-row stacks of pallets need a gap of at least 1 m between rows so that the rigging can also reach the back of each row. Some of the detail behind these figures sits in standards ČOS 399001 cites rather than restates, including the handling-equipment characteristics in ČOS 399004 and ČOS 399005 and the force-protection doctrine in Pub-31-10-01.
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