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The twenty-foot equivalent unit (abbreviated TEU or teu) is a general unit of cargo capacity, often used for container ships and container ports. It is based on the volume of a 20-foot-long (6.1 m) intermodal container, a standard-sized metal box that can be easily transferred between different modes of transportation, such as ships, trains, and trucks.
Detailed dimensions: 20-foot and 40-foot containers
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “twenty-foot equivalent unit” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.