Estimate vessel size in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) from deadweight tonnage (dwt) for container ships.

calcTEU(shipType, dwt)

Arguments

shipType

Ship type (vector of strings, see calcShipType), determined by Stat 5 code,

  • "container.ship"

  • "bulk.carrier"

  • "tanker"

  • "general.cargo"

  • "vehicle.carrier"

  • "reefer"

  • "ro.ro"

  • "passenger"

  • "tug"

  • "misc"

dwt

Ship maximum deadweight tonnage (vector of numericals, tonnage)

Value

TEU (vector of numericals)

References

Kristensen, H. O. "Ship-Desmo-Tool." https://gitlab.gbar.dtu.dk/oceanwave3d/Ship-Desmo

Examples

calcTEU(c("bulk.carrier","container.ship"), c(70000,191144))
#> [1] 0.00 17523.07