There is evena mistake:
Philip S Hall wrote:
Imagine how much simpler life would be for people in the
industry if there was a single system of measurement. Look at the
clutter in the container specs on this site:
http://www.freightraders.co.nz/containerspecs.html
They even have to include conversion tables just overcome the
ambivalence of it all.
Phil Hall
----- Original Message ----- From: "Carleton MacDonald"
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To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 10:42 PM
Subject: [USMA:36195] RE: Australia; shipping containers
The reason they are those sizes is that a US
company (SeaLand) was the first
to really start using them (in the 1950's) - and the concept also was
born
in the US, in the 1930's. Of course the US developers of containers
would
design them in wombat. Once they came into wide use the whole
infrastructure of handling them had been set in stone - ships, trucks,
rail
cars, cranes - and then the size was locked in.
Same reason we fly at feet altitudes and not meters - the US helped
redesign
the European airway system after World War II and of course used its
particular measurements.
cm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On
Behalf
Of Han Maenen
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 16:54
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:36194] Australia; shipping containers
And even though we have gone metric here in Oz we still stay 20', 40',
48'
and 53' for shipping container lengths....
These shipping container sizes are an international standard. ISO
worked on
an metric standard for transport systems, but I have not heard about
this
for some years.
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