Too bad the imperial-ists had their way years ago and they are all "twenty foot" or "forty foot" containers instead of something rational.
cm > Stopped behind a truck transporting one of those big metal shipping containers > used on ocean freighters and just happened to notice that all the dimensions are > listed first in metric followed by Imperial. This one just happened to have a > "rational" tare weight of 4000 kg -- a pleasant (to me, at least!) surprise. > > But I guess the shipping industry must have been doing that for a long time now > and I just never noticed before. > > Ezra >
