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  2. Freight rate - Wikipedia

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    Freight rate. A freight rate (historically and in ship chartering simply freight [1]) is a price at which a certain cargo is delivered from one point to another. The price depends on the form of the cargo, the mode of transport ( truck, ship, train, aircraft ), the weight of the cargo, and the distance to the delivery destination.

  3. Twenty-foot equivalent unit - Wikipedia

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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. [1] 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 ...

  4. Intermodal container - Wikipedia

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    A 45-foot PW can load 34 Euro-pallets – seven more, or 26% better than 27 in a standard 45-foot container. Forty-five-foot containers can be seen sticking out 2.5 feet (0.76 m), as part of the forty foot container stacks at the back of this ship.

  5. Containerization - Wikipedia

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    An equivalent unit is a measure of containerized cargo capacity equal to one standard 20 ft (6.10 m) (length) × 8 ft (2.44 m) (width) container. As this is an approximate measure, the height of the box is not considered.

  6. Container ship - Wikipedia

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    This railroad can typically deliver containers in 1/3 to 1/2 of the time of a sea voyage, and in late 2009 announced a 20% reduction in its container shipping rates. With its 2009 rate schedule, the TSR will transport a forty-foot container to Poland from Yokohama for $2,820, or from Pusan for $2,154. Shipping industry alliances

  7. Shipping container - Wikipedia

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    40 foot container. A shipping container is a container with strength suitable to withstand shipment, storage, and handling. Shipping containers range from large reusable steel boxes used for intermodal shipments to the ubiquitous corrugated boxes. In the context of international shipping trade, "container" or "shipping container" is virtually ...

  8. Shipping industry of China - Wikipedia

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    The governmental responsibility of the shipping industry is under the Ministry of Transport . The number of container units handled by Chinese ports in 2011 reached more than 150 million. The country also manufactures 90% of the world's containers. The throughput of cargo and containers at China's ports has been the largest in the world for the ...

  9. List of largest container shipping companies - Wikipedia

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    20 Zhonggu Logistics Corporation China: 120,042 86 0.4% 21 TS Lines Taiwan: 92,655 44 0.3% 22 Antong Holdings (QASC) China: 83,868 84 0.3% 23 Regional Container Lines (RCL) Thailand: 77,153 34 0.3% 24 Global Feeder Shipping LLC United Arab Emirates: 76,616 33 0.3% 25 Ningbo Ocean Shipping Co. China: 75,077 80 0.3% 26 Emirates Shipping Line