equivalent units

基本解释

The port expects to process 6.3 million 20-foot equivalent units (TEU)worth of containers in 2011.
2011年，该港预计处理630万20英尺当量单位的集装箱。
There are currently about 26m containers in the world, and the volume of goods they carry has risen from 13.5m “twenty-foot equivalent units” in 1980 to almost 140m today.
现在全球约有2600万个集装箱，它们装运的货物量已从1980年的1350万个“廿呎货柜等量单位”增加到今日的近14000万个。
There are two methods to calculate the equivalent units: FIFO and weighted average method.
计算约当产量通常有先进先出法和加权平均法两种方法。

Six of the world's 10 busiest ports are located in China, when measured in terms of cargo shipped in standard containers, or TEUs (20-foot equivalent units).
FORBES
The number of TEUs (the large containers on ships: twenty-foot equivalent units) moving through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is up 23% in May year-over-year and up 26% since the beginning of the year.
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Last year U.S. ports handled 20.8 million TEUs, or units equivalent to one over-the-road trailer, down from 31% from 2007.
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