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Containerization is a system of intermodal freight transport intermodal cargo transport using standard International Organization for StandardizationISO containers that can be loaded on container ships, railroad cars, and trucks. There are three common standard lengths, 20 ft (6.1 metrem), 40 ft (12.2 m) and 45 ft (13.7 m). Container capacity (of ships, ports, etc) is measured in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU, or sometimes teu). A twenty-foot equivalent unit is a measure of containerized cargo equal to one standard 20 ft (length) × 8 ft (width) × 8.5 ft (height) container. In metric units this is 6.10 m (length) × 2.44 m (width) × 2.59 m (height), or approximately 39 m3. Most containers today are of the 40-ft variety and thus are 2 TEU. 45 ft containers are also designated 2 TEU. Two TEU are referred to as one forty-foot equivalent unit (FEU). These two terms of measurement are used interchangeably. "High cube" containers have a height of 9.5 ft (2.9 m), while half-height containers, used for heavy loads, have a height of 4.25 ft (1.3 m).__TOC__
History - Containerization is an important element of the logistics revolution that changed freight handling in the 20th century. Malcolm McLean claimed to have invented the shipping container in the 1930s in New Jersey, but only founded Sea-Land Corporation in the 1950s.McLean explained that while sitting at a dock waiting for cargo he trucked in to be reloaded onto a ship, he realized that rather than loading and unloading the truck, the truck itself (with some minor modifications) could be the container that is transported. Containerization revolutionized cargo shipping. Today, approximately 90% of cargo moves by containers stacked on transport ships. Over 200 million containers are shipped per year.The widespread use of ISO standard containers influenced modifications in other freight moving standards, gradually forcing removable truck bodies or swap bodyswap bodies into the same sizes and shapes (though without the strength needed to be stacked), and changing completely the worldwide use of freight pallets which fit into ISO containers or into commercial vehicles.
Biggest container companies -
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Other container systems - Haus-zu-Haus (Germany) RACE (container)RACE containers (Australia)
See also - Containerlift Portainer cranes Semi-trailer Unit Load DeviceULD bulk cargo
In fiction - The containerization system, containers, tracking of containers, and moving of containers is extensively made use of in the HBO television series The Wire (television)The Wire.
External links - export911.com - Dimensions for shipping containers ponl.com - Container diagram and other information wired.com - "The 20-Ton Packet" - Wired Magazine October 1999 aapa-ports.org - World Port Rankings 2002, by metric tons and by TEUs, American Association of Port Authorities (xls format, 26.5kb) !shipping-container-housing.com - Shipping Container Housing GuideFreight cars Category:Commercial item transport and distributionCategory:Freight !equipmentCategory:ContainersCa tegory:Packagingda:Containerde :Containerfa:بارگُنجfr: Conteneurit:Containernl:Contai nerja:コンテナsv:Container vi:Côngtenơzh:集装箱 DEBUG REDIRECT (containerization)
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