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containerization
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containerization [kən‚tā·nə·rə′zā·shən]
(industrial engineering)
The practice of placing cargo in large containers such as truck trailers to facilitate loading on and off ships and railroad flat cars.


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of a twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) from Europe.
1 harbor in Latin America, handling more twenty-foot equivalent units of cargo in 2002 than any other port in the region.
5 million twenty-foot equivalent units (equivalent to one, 20-foot shipping container), up from the 200,000 it currently moves in the Yang Ming terminal.
 
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