cubic meters of a 20 foot shipping container
Twenty-foot equivalent unit As the TEU is an inexact unit, it cannot be converted precisely into other units. The related unit forty-foot equivalent unit, however, is defined as two TEU. The most common dimensions for a 20-foot (6.1 m) container are 20 feet (6.1 m) long, 8 feet (2.44 m) wide, and 8 feet 6 inches (2.59 m) high, for a volume of 1,360 cubic feet (39 m3). However, both 9-foot-6-inch-tall (2.90 m) High cube and 4-foot-3-inch (1.30 m) half height containers are also reckoned as 1 TEU.[2] This gives a volume range of 680 to 1,520 cubic feet (19 to 43 m3) for one TEU.
Barrel (unit) In the worldwide oil industry, an oil barrel is defined as 42 US gallons, which is about 7002159000000000000â™ 159 litres[10] or 35 imperial gallons.[11] In Canada, oil companies measure oil in cubic metres but convert to barrels on export, since most of Canada's oil production is exported to the US. The nominal conversion factor is 1 cubic metre = 6.2898 oil barrels,[12] but conversion is generally done by custody transfer meters on the border since the exact conversion factor depends on oil density and temperature.