A Day in Life of a Container Ship in Middle of the Ocean
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Welcome back to our channel for a feature on the career path of the mariners working in the cargo containership, as well as the perks and challenges of working miles away from the shoreline. And before reaching the shoreline, the vessel often faces another challenge of trying to berth the massive vessel in an unfamiliar harbor that requires external assistance to come on board. 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. Today, about 90% of non-bulk cargo worldwide is transported by container ships, and the largest modern container ships can carry up to 24,000 TEU (e.g., Ever Ace). Container ships now rival crude oil tankers and bulk carriers as the largest commercial seaborne vessels.
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