When a shipper books a consignment of dense, heavy goods — machine parts, canned food, construction materials — the twenty-foot standard container is often the natural choice: it offers around 33 cubic metres of usable space and is typically the right unit when the weight limit is reached before the volume runs out.
Source: https://www.iso.org/standard/10969.html
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