What is a Container Ship?
A Container Ship is a cargo vessel designed to carry standardized intermodal containers (also called ISO containers or TEUs — Twenty-foot Equivalent Units). Container shipping revolutionized global trade by enabling standardized, rapid loading and unloading of cargo using gantry cranes.
Container Ship Sizes
- Feeder — under 1,000 TEU
- Regional feeder — 1,000–2,000 TEU
- Panamax — up to 5,100 TEU
- Post-Panamax — 5,000–10,000 TEU
- Ultra Large Container Vessel (ULCV) — 18,000–24,000+ TEU
Container Shipping in UAE
Jebel Ali Port, operated by DP World, is the world's 9th busiest container port by TEU volume and the largest in the Middle East. It handles approximately 14.5 million TEUs annually.
