Fifty years of container ship growth - infographic

[Altair]

Fifty years of container ship growth.




Previously:

Autonomous electric container ship - photo
Container ship cross-section - photo
Long Beach automated container terminal - GIF
Suez Canal ship collision - video
Container ship departing New York - GIF

[BuffaloJohn]

So - for those interested in units - a TEU means Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit - yup that is a real thing

[mklotz]

So - for those interested in units - a TEU means Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit - yup that is a real thing

From...

https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2022/2...nt-unit--teu--

The external volume of 1 TEU is 1,360 cubic feet, which is 38.51 cubic metres. The most common containers, used for transport on container ships and on lorries, are designated as 2 TEU.

[BuffaloJohn]

From...

The external volume of 1 TEU is 1,360 cubic feet, which is 38.51 cubic metres. The most common containers, used for transport on container ships and on lorries, are designated as 2 TEU.

And to make matters more interesting, there is often rounding used when describing containers. A 45ft container, which is 2.25 TEU is often just called a 2 TEU.

And ... a 20ft container is 1.5inches shorter so that a single forty can be stacked on two twenties and have three inches of space between the twenties.