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container ship
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type of cargo ship
A container ship is a type of cargo ship designed to carry standardized metal boxes (called containers) that stack efficiently on the vessel. These ships are essential to global trade because they allow goods to be transported in large quantities across oceans in a cost-effective and organized way.
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A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. Container ships are a common means of commercial intermodal freight transport and now carry most seagoing non-bulk cargo.
Container ship capacity is measured in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). Typical loads are a mix of 20-foot (1-TEU) and 40-foot (2-TEU) ISO-standard containers, with the latter predominant.