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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by bkor on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:37PM (#26586499)
Just a small correction: 20.000 TEU is not the same as the amount of containers. TEU is the number of twenty foot equivalent. There will be enough 40 foot containers on there. If it was going to Europe there will hardly be any empty containers.

Amount of actual containers is probably the 20.000 divided by 1.6 or so, though it's not a given that any vessel is fully loaded to max capacity. Sometimes need to deal with restrictions.

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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by Alupis on Thursday March 25, 2021 @08:35PM (#26587534)
The weight is more of an issue. Heavy lift helis cannot lift a fully loaded 20ft container (weighing up to 67,000lbs), let alone a 40 footer.
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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by souprock on Friday March 26, 2021 @04:41AM (#26589958)
"up to"

Those heavy ones would be evenly distributed in the bottom of the hold, down below the water line. Low-weight ones are on top, for ship stability.

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