Twenty-foot equivalent unit
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The twenty-foot equivalent unit is a general unit of cargo capacity, often used for container ships and container ports. It is based on the volume of a 20-foot-long intermodal container, a standard-si
A 20-foot-long (6.1 m) ISO container equals 1 TEU.
Two 40-foot-long (12 m) containers stacked on top of two twenty-foot containers. These four containers represent 6 TEU.
Stacked top to bottom: 53 feet (16.15 m), 48 feet (14.63 m), 45 feet (13.72 m), 40 feet (12.19 m), and two end-to-end, 20 feet (6.10 m) containers
The MV Emma Mærsk can carry 11,000 TEU of 14 tons gross apiece.
MV Colombo Express
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Colombo Express is a container ship. When launched in 2005, she was claimed by her owner to be the world's largest container ship, a title she held until Emma Mærsk was launched in 2006.
Colombo Express on its maiden voyage to Hamburg, with the Köhlbrand bridge in the background, in April 2005