What does "Tu" mean in steel container packing?
At present, most countries use two containers, 20 feet and 40 feet long, for container transportation. In order to unify the calculation of container number, 20 feet container is used as a unit of calculation (unit of conversion), and 40 feet container is used as the two unit of calculation, so as to calculate the volume of container operation uniformly.
TU is a unit of 20 feet containerThe container unit (twenty-feetequivalentunits, TEU) is also called the conversion box, standard box, 20 feet, is a 20 foot length of the container for the international unit of measurement (equivalent units), also known as the international standard container unit. Usually used to indicate the capacity of ships to load containers, as well as important statistics and conversion units for container and port throughput.
CTU is a unit of statistical conversion of the number of China's Railway Container Containers prescribed by the Ministry of railways. It is based on 1 10t containers. 10 1t boxes, =1 CTU; 2 5T boxes = 1 CTU; 1 10t boxes; =1 CTU:1 boxes = 2 CTU; 1 40ft boxes = 4 CTU 20ft.
