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2. Intermodal container - Wikipedia

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   An intermodal container, often called a shipping container, or cargo container, (or simply “container”) is a large metal crate designed and built for intermodal freight transport, meaning these containers can be used across different modes of transport – such as from ships to trains to trucks – without unloading and reloading their ...

3. United States container ports - Wikipedia

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   The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles together account for approximately 40% of the shipping containers entering the United States. [7] More than three-quarters of the containers leaving Los Angeles were empty in July 2021 whereas about two-thirds of the containers leaving U.S. ports are typically filled with exports.

4. Shipping container - Wikipedia

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   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 .

5. More People Are Considering Shipping Container Homes ... - AOL

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   Here is an example of a tiny home used with an 8'x40' shipping container. The total cost for the contractor was $42,320 in 2022. Material costs have gone up in 2023 by just under 3 percent, so ...

6. 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, and trucks.

7. Containerization - Wikipedia

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   A converted container used as an office at a building site. Shipping container architecture is the use of containers as the basis for housing and other functional buildings for people, either as temporary or a permanent housing, and either as a main building or as a cabin or as a workshop. Containers can also be used as sheds or storage areas ...