TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit)

A Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit is a unit equivalent to the volume of one 20-feet-long (6.1 m) intermodal container used for measuring the quantitive side of traffic flows, container terminals' throughput or transport capacity. There is also a Forty Foot Equivalent Unit (FEU) equivalent to the volume of one 40-feet container which is 2 TEU.