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TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit)

The unit container shipping counts in: one twenty-foot container, so a standard forty-foot box is two TEU. A vessel’s capacity, a liner’s fleet, the boxes it carries in a year (its liftings) and the freight rate it charges are all quoted per TEU, which lets a ship, a route and a company be compared on one measure.

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