Broken stowage represents lost cargo space and therefore lost earning capacity. Moreover, broken stowage is a void space, which could encourage cargo movement while the vessel is moving in a seaway. Therefore broken stowage must be avoided as far as possible both by planning cargo stowage so that the least space is wasted and by attempting to fill empty spaces between cargo. This can be done by dunnage or by small, nearly flexible parcels of cargo such as coils of wire or small bales, or, in the case of timber cargoes, smaller parcels of pieces of the timber. Exporters of timber from the Baltic ship “ends” for filling the space left unoccupied. Such filling up cargo is carried at a lower rate, for example twothirds of the normal rate.