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''Shipping.''

(TEU).

A Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit is a measure of a ship’s cargo carrying capacity. 

The dimensions of one TEU are equal to that of a standard 20-foot shipping container: 20 feet long, 8 feet tall, 8 feet wide. 


Two TEUs are equal to one FEU (forty-foot-equivalent unit).


==See also==
* [[Cost and freight]]
*[[Documentary collection]]
*[[Panamax]]
* [[Unit]]

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