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Port Exspansion  

Port of Felixstowe expansion started on the 8th May 2008

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The first 440 metres of quay should be available by April 2010 and all Phase I fully operational by September of that year. This will create an additional 730 metres of deep-water quay, dredged to -16 metres. The quay will be equipped with seven cranes, able to accommodate the largest container ships in the world.

Phase II should  be operational by 2014. When completed, it will create four new deep-water berths, with a total length of 1,285 metres, and will be equipped with 13 ship-to-shore gantry cranes. This will provide overall capacity of 5.3 million TEUs per annum at Felixstowe

Costain Limited have been awarded the multi - million pound contract and the terminal at Languard will continue to be operational during construction work.

Keep up  to date with the construction work ...click here  Costain Limited Link 
 

Filling in and reclaiming the land behind the piles

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Information below links to Wikipedia

The Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit (often TEU or teu) is an inexact unit of cargo capacity often used to describe the capacity of container ships and container terminals.

Largest ships

List of largest container ships

Biggest container ships in the world, listed by capacity expressed in twenty-foot equivalent units or TEU.

Built	Name	Length o.a.	Beam	Maximum TEU	GT	Owners/Flag
2007	Evelyn Mærsk	397.7 m/1,305 ft	56.4 m/185 ft	14,500	151,687	Maersk Line/Denmark
2008	Eugen Mærsk	397.7 m/1,305 ft	56.4 m/185 ft	14,500	151,687	Maersk Line/Denmark
2006	Estelle Mærsk	397.7 m/1,305 ft	56.4 m/185 ft	14,500	151,687	Maersk Line/Denmark
2006	Emma Mærsk	397.7 m/1,305 ft	56.4 m/185 ft	14,500	151,687	Maersk Line/Denmark
2007	Elly Mærsk	397.7 m/1,305 ft	56.4 m/185 ft	14,500	151,687	Maersk Line/Denmark
2007	Eleonora Mærsk	397.7 m/1,305 ft	56.4 m/185 ft	14,500	151,687	Maersk Line/Denmark
2007	Edith Mærsk	397.7 m/1,305 ft	56.4 m/185 ft	14,500	151,687	Maersk Line/Denmark
2007	Ebba Mærsk	397.7 m/1,305 ft	56.4 m/185 ft	14,500	151,687	Maersk Line/Denmark
2009	MSC Kalina	366.0 m/1,201 ft	51.0 m/167 ft	13,296	135,000	MSC/Panama
2009	MSC Irene	366.0 m/1,201 ft	51.0 m/167 ft	13,296	135,000	MSC/Panama
2009	MSC Gaia	366.0 m/1,201 ft	51.0 m/167 ft	13,296	135,000	MSC/Panama
2009	MSC Eva	366.0 m/1,201 ft	51.0 m/167 ft	13,296	135,000	MSC/Panama
2009	MSC Emanuela	366.0 m/1,201 ft	51.0 m/167 ft	13,296	135,000	MSC/Panama
2008	MSC Daniela	366.0 m/1,201 ft	51.0 m/167 ft	13,296	135,000	MSC/Panama
2009	MSC Camille	366.0 m/1,201 ft	51.0 m/167 ft	13,296	135,000	MSC/Panama
2009	MSC Bettina	366.0 m/1,201 ft	51.0 m/167 ft	13,296	135,000	MSC/Panama
2009	MSC Beatrice	366.0 m/1,201 ft	51.0 m/167 ft	13,296	135,000	MSC/Panama
2010	MSC Paloma	366.0 m/1,201 ft	51.0 m/167 ft	13,200	135,000	MSC/Panama
2010	MSC Melatilde	366.0 m/1,201 ft	51.0 m/167 ft	13,200	135,000	MSC/Panama
2009	MSC Danit	366.0 m/1,201 ft	51.0 m/167 ft	13,200	135,000	MSC/Panama
2010	Mærsk Essen	366.0 m/1,201 ft	48.2 m/158 ft	13,092	135,000	Rickmers & Cie/Singapore
2010	Mærsk Emden	366.0 m/1,201 ft	48.2 m/158 ft	13,092	135,000	Rickmers & Cie/Singapore
2010	Mærsk Eindhoven	366.0 m/1,201 ft	48.2 m/158 ft	13,092	135,000	Rickmers & Cie/Singapore
2010	Mærsk Edinburg	366.0 m/1,201 ft	48.2 m/158 ft	13,092	135,000	Rickmers & Cie/Singapore

 Busiest ports of call

Note: "TEU" stands for "Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit," i.e. a 20 foot shipping container. Thus a 40 foot container is 2 TEU, etc.

Rank	Port	Country	TEUs (000s)	+/- from 2004	% change from 2004
1	Singapore	Singapore	23,192	1,863	8.73
2	Hong Kong	People's Republic of China	22,427	443	2.02
3	Shanghai	People's Republic of China	18,084	3,527	24.23
4	Shenzhen	People's Republic of China	16,197	2,582	18.96
5	Busan	South Korea	11,843	413	3.61
6	Kaohsiung	Taiwan (Republic of China)	9,471	0	0.00
7	Rotterdam	Netherlands	9,287	1,006	12.15
8	Hamburg	Germany	8,088	1,085	15.49
9	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	7,619	1,190	18.51
10	Los Angeles	United States of America	7,485	164	2.24

Standard containers 

The 40 ft (12 m) container is the most popular container worldwide.Longer container types have become more common, especially in North America. Shorter containers (e.g. 10 ft (3.0 m) containers) are rare.

The following table shows the weights and dimensions of the three most common types of containers worldwide. The weights and dimensions quoted below are averages, different manufacture series of the same type of container may vary slightly in actual size and weight.