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In case, like me, you are confused by units, "23000 TEU" refers to the number of 20 foot containers they can carry. The average value of a container is thought
by regularfry 6y ago
In case, like me, you are confused by units, "23000 TEU" refers to the number of 20 foot containers they can carry.
The average value of a container is thought to be somewhere north of $50,000. Even allowing for a fair margin of "it's a bit more complicated than that", you're in the region of $100,000,000 cargo-value per ship.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoAnd in practice they carry 40-foot containers. So 23,000 TEU is probably 11,500 containers. In practice you can stack 40-footers as you wish, or stack 20-footers as you wish. But you can't mix them easily. See, two 20-footers are 'broken' in the middle, and will stress a 40-footer in the (unreinforced) center to the point of failure if stacked high enough. Which of course they do.
- _0ffh 6y agoWell, if you can stack 40-footers on top of 20-footers I suppose that would be an option? That would of course make loading more complicated, but it's hardly an insurmountable obstacle, no?
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoOnce, on the bottom layer, you can have 20-footer(s). Once you go to 40-footers you can never go back in the stack. They're stacked 10-high above the deck. So you can have <10% 20-footers. Or put them all on the bottom, and only switch to 40-ft once.
- _0ffh 6y agoQuite, that's what I mean. Stack all the 20s first, then top it up with 40s.