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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by imglorp on Thursday March 25, 2021 @07:13PM (#26586836)
20,000 TEU, not containers.
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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by rmccue on Thursday March 25, 2021 @07:48PM (#26587139)
TEU being Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit, and containers generally are either 20ft or 40ft long.
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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by tyingq on Thursday March 25, 2021 @10:23PM (#26588170)
You can see from pictures that most of the containers are 40 foot ones. Also, the ship doesn't appear to be at full capacity to me. See https://imgur.com/a/b8neNkR (top is as full a picture as I could find, bottom is current). My guess is ~6000 40 foot containers in its current state.
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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by alisonkisk on Thursday March 25, 2021 @07:17PM (#26586872)
What's the difference, for purposes of estimating workload?
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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by Clewza313 on Thursday March 25, 2021 @07:29PM (#26586972)
Containers are 1 or 2 TEUs, although doubles are more common for long distance, so you're probably looking at 10,000-ish containers.
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