Shipping Container Dimensions & Specifications: Shipping containers are held to very specific dimensional standards to ensure they can be safely stacked on top of, and below, any other shipping container in the world. Standard shipping containers are 8' wide (2.44m), and are measured in TEU's (twenty-foot equivalent units).
Shipping containers come in a range of standard sizes. Their size refers to the container’s length in feet. Most containers are a similar width and there are two common heights, a general purpose or high cube variant. More about that later. How big is a shipping container? They range in size from 8ft, or 2.43m, all the way up to 48ft, or 14.63m. The most common shipping container, a 20ft ...
The most common shipping container sizes are 20 feet or 40 feet long, 8 feet wide, and 8.5 feet or 9.5 feet tall. The taller containers are called High Cubes. In total, shipping container sizes come in lengths of 10 ft, 20 ft, 40 ft or 53 ft. The inside measurements of shipping containers are a bit smaller. See exact shipping container dimensions below:
Shipping container dimensions and sizes for normal 40ft and 20ft containers, plus the more rare sizes and varieties like pallet-wide and 48ft