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。

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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.

FORBES: Short-Term Skepticism, Long-Term Optimism