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There's only about six million active containers in the world. If one owner has more than a sixth of them, an easy fix would be to issue them a second owner cod
by addaon 4y ago
There's only about six million active containers in the world. If one owner has more than a sixth of them, an easy fix would be to issue them a second owner code, basically extending the six-digit field by a bit.
- Denvercoder9 4y ago> There's only about six million active containers in the world. Huh, that's a lot less than I expected there to be.
- contravariant 4y agoThough that's about 1 per 1000 people, and if you imagine how much stuff you'd end up with using all that a container could carry when constantly in use, I guess about a thousandth of that isn't too weird an amount.
- elevaet 4y ago6 million seems like a underestimate. There are meant to be 54k container ships in the world. That would mean an average of 110 containers per ship, and ignores all of the ones in use on land. Some of those ships can carry 24k containers _each_.
- walrus01 4y agoThere are not at all a vast number of 8,000 TEU+ ships however. Small enough that any one ship owning company might have a few dozen at most. Evergreen says it has something like 150 ships.
- GauntletWizard 4y agoEvergreen is still growing, though; They've got several 8,000+ TEU ships set to launch in the next few years. Consolidation is key. I would guess that the next answer is "Evergreen gets multiple Owner codes", because that's a real simple way to stretch it, but...
- ReactiveJelly 4y agoWikipedia says 20.5 million _in 2012_ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_container https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_container This was their source. Apparently not updated since that 2012 survey: https://www.csiu.co/resources-and-links/world-container-fleet https://www.csiu.co/resources-and-links/world-container-flee...
- munk-a 4y agoWell, we'd probably just switch over to UUIDs since those things are practically infinite and we've now got a lot of well established infrastructure in place for handling them.
- fshr 4y agoNope, that many characters would be impractical in daily use. There’s a lot of copying, pasting, reading, and reciting of numbers via email/web/phone/TMS/WMS/etc.