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com/tei1/jsp/TEI1_Containers.jsp. Industry standard shipping containers come in a variety of sizes. A small general-purpose shipping
container is 20-feet long by 8-feet wide by 8 1/2-feet high. Some
containers are 40-feet long by 8-feet wide and 8 1/2- or 9 1/2feet high (the latter called “hicube”). There are even refrigerated,
fuel-tank, and power-pack-generator containers.
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23. These mission packages are intended to be descriptive in
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24. For a more detailed description of the essentially Navy
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