How container ships are sized: classes, TEU capacity and limits
How container ship size classes are defined, from feeders to 24,000 TEU ultra-large vessels, and how canals, draft, cranes and demand set the limits.
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How container ship size classes are defined, from feeders to 24,000 TEU ultra-large vessels, and how canals, draft, cranes and demand set the limits.
TEU, the twenty-foot equivalent unit, is container shipping's standard measure of capacity. See what a TEU counts, where it is used, and what it leaves out.