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		Someone on March 29, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ever Given Everywhere Fully loaded, it’s about twice that. It carries up to 20,124 TEU (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit) according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ever_Given, so that’s 402,480 feet. That’s 122.676 km. Double-stack and you get a wall of over 60km. And that doesn’t include space between containers. A train would be 70-ish km long.

throwaway2037 on March 29, 2021 [–]

Nice calculation. Financial Times here (https://www.ft.com/content/3dc797d0-7268-49a4-b0b5-3d11479cb...) claims "90 miles if they were loaded on a single-decked train", which Google tells me is about 144.8 kilometers!

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