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TEU

Meaning in logistics & supply chain, with examples

abbreviationCommon term

In logistics & supply chain, TEU means: Short for twenty-foot equivalent unit: a standard measure of container capacity in which one 20-foot container is 1 TEU and one 40-foot container is 2 TEU.

In Turkish: TEU, yirmi fitlik konteyner eşdeğeri

How it is used

Used to describe the size of ships (a 20,000 TEU vessel), the volume a port handles and a company's annual shipping volume. A 40-foot container is also called an FEU, forty-foot equivalent unit.

Example sentences

  1. We ship about 1,200 TEU a year from Mersin to Northern Europe.

  2. The new vessels on this route carry over 20,000 TEU each.

Common collocations

  • TEU capacity
  • annual volume in TEU
  • TEU vessel
  • per TEU
  • containerA large steel box of standard size used to carry goods by ship, train and truck without unloading them when they move from one vehicle to another.
  • FCLShort for full container load: a sea shipment in which one shipper's goods fill or use a whole container on their own.
  • vesselA ship, especially a large one that carries cargo; the standard word for ships in shipping documents and freight emails.
  • ocean freightThe transport of goods by ship, mostly in containers; the cheapest way to move large volumes over long international distances.

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