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In terms of scale, in 2017, the port of Oakland handled 2,388,000 TEUs (a TEU being a 20 foot equivalent unit, essentially, a shipping container). During that s
by sizzzzlerz 8y ago
In terms of scale, in 2017, the port of Oakland handled 2,388,000 TEUs (a TEU being a 20 foot equivalent unit, essentially, a shipping container). During that same year, the port of Shanghai, the busiest port in the world, handled 40,233,000 TEUs. Rotterdam, the busiest western European port, handled 13,734,000 TEUs.
- dredmorbius 8y agoNB: most standard shipping containers are actually 40 feet long, so a TEU is half the standard-sized box you'll see, and you can divide by two to get about 1.194 million of those handed by PoE. There are 20 foot containers, they're just not nearly as common as the 40s.