What is ordinarily assumed is that the Ioadable TEU capacity of a full container ship is a constant figure. which is close to the designed figure provided by the ship-yard where the ship had been designed/ built. But in fact the said figure is not a constant one and is variable in each voyage to each ship. If some carrier overestimated this figure, it would be found that some containers must be shut out the moment just before sailing, the shipper would suffer a great deal of troubles for shutting out the goods Which is ordinarily assumed that the Ioadable TEU capacity of a full container ship is a constant figure. Which is close to the designed figure provided by the ship-yard where the ship had been designed / built. a constant one and is variable in each voyage to each ship. If some carrier overestimated this figure, it would be found that some containers must be shut out the moment just before sailing, the shipper would suffer a great deal of troubles for shutting out the the goods