Tworty container that can be used as TEU or FEU makes debut
AN INNOVATIVE new ISO container design that allows a unit to be used either as a standard forty foot (FEU) or twenty foot (TEU) container has completed its maiden voyage. The Tworty Box, consisting of two TEU containers that can be linked together to form a single FEU unit, was successfully shipped from Hamburg, Germany to Montreal, Canada on the containership OOCL Montreal.
Two containers joined together as a single unit were stuffed with 20 tonnes of breakbulk cargo, mainly car parts and granulate, for Canadian consignees, LloydÕs Loading List reported.
Developer Tworty Box said the container was designed to reduce the cost of repositioning empties, caused by imbalances between supply and demand for TEU and FEU containers.
"It has doors at each end. The second door opens to the inside and can only be locked from the inside," the developer said. "This door can be fixed to the container ceiling and, with the use of its special bonding elements, another Tworty Box can be joined up, thereby creating a FEU unit of full value and standard doors at both ends."
Tworty Box prototypes have received full International Convention for Safe Containers certification for single and for coupled operation.
AN INNOVATIVE new ISO container design that allows a unit to be used either as a standard forty foot (FEU) or twenty foot (TEU) container has completed its maiden voyage. The Tworty Box, consisting of two TEU containers that can be linked together to form a single FEU unit, was successfully shipped from Hamburg, Germany to Montreal, Canada on the containership OOCL Montreal.
Two containers joined together as a single unit were stuffed with 20 tonnes of breakbulk cargo, mainly car parts and granulate, for Canadian consignees, LloydÕs Loading List reported.
Developer Tworty Box said the container was designed to reduce the cost of repositioning empties, caused by imbalances between supply and demand for TEU and FEU containers.
"It has doors at each end. The second door opens to the inside and can only be locked from the inside," the developer said. "This door can be fixed to the container ceiling and, with the use of its special bonding elements, another Tworty Box can be joined up, thereby creating a FEU unit of full value and standard doors at both ends."
Tworty Box prototypes have received full International Convention for Safe Containers certification for single and for coupled operation.