Container ship

A large container ship, near Hamburg

A Container ship is a cargo ship that is used to carry standard Intermodal containers. They are common. Most cargo ships that do not carry bulk goods are container ships. The containers come in different sizes. In general, the load they can carry is measured in Twenty-foot equivalent units (abbreviated TEU). A twenty-foot container is 1 TEU, a forty-foot container is 2 TEU.

Container Ship Media

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  Container ships avoid the complex stevedoring of break-bulk shipping

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  The earliest container ships were converted T2 tankers in the 1940s after World War II

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  Container ship Tan Cang 15 on the Saigon River in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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  A Delmas container ship unloading at the Zanzibar port in Tanzania

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  Container feeder Helga arriving at Greenock

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  Open-top containership Rhoneborg at Fremantle

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  Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller passing Port Said in the Suez Canal on its maiden voyage

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  COSCO Guangzhou 02 (RaBoe)

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  Container ship in Miraflores locks, Panama Canal

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  Container ship Motor Vessel TransAtlantic. * IMO Number: 9148520 * Length: 101 m * Beam: 16 m