Part Of The Freight Term Glossary
What is a TEU in shipping?
A twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) is a shipping container whose internal dimensions measure about 20 feet long, 8 feet wide, and 8 feet tall. It can hold between 9 and 11 pallets, depending on whether they are standard pallets or EUR-pallets. Two TEUs have the capacity of a single FEU.
TEU shipping: meaning, capacity & containers
When booking a shipment, it’s important to know what a TEU is this is used to determine what your cost of shipping will be. Rates are given according to TEU, so to get the total cost you can multiply the rate per TEU by the number of TEUs in your shipment.
TEU is a measurement that is also used to determine the capacity of container ships.
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TEU vs FEU
TEU is used to refer to containers with twenty-foot equivalent unit while FEU is an acronym for forty-foot equivalent unit.
Both terms describe the size of a shipping container and are used as standardized measures for the amount of volume being shipped. For example, if you shipped two 20FT containers and a 40FT container, then you shipped shipped 4 TEU (or 2 FEU).
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