Re: The Destruction of Farms by Encroaching Cities.

On Mon, 13 May 2024 19:08:54 GMT, Tom Kunich <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:

Now did everyone get that? A ship bearing 50,000 containers will be thrown off balance by two empty containers returning to their source.

Containers are counted in TEU (Twenty foot Equivalent Units):
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit>
or FEU's (Forty foot Equivalent Units):
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit#Forty-foot_equivalent_unit>
I suggest you use TEU units when counting containers.

The Dali is a 10,000 TEU class vessel.  Most containers are now 40 ft
long. The Dali was carrying 4,679 FEU's, which will probably be about
twice that in TEU. 

The largest container ship is the MSC Irina at 24,346 TEU.
<https://scf.com.au/news-articles/largest-shipping-container-ships/>
It will be a long time before we have container vessels that carry
your 50,000 containers.

You might find this video of interest.
"Why are No Ultra Large Container Vessels Sailing to the United
States"
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--l-FWUxxiw>

Full disclosure:  I posted this as an example of how Tom often
responds.  Instead of addressing the questions and staying on topic,
he selects the most trivial item mentioned, and respond only to that.
So, I delivered a trivial, but interesting reply.


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