据估计,全世界自60年代起共生产集装箱2000万TEU,其中约700万TEU目前仍使用于国际航运中。那其余的又上哪儿去了呢?有很大一部份是明显报废了。另一部分只“单程”运货至某地,而那些地区又无货物可供运回,随后就被废弃了。还有的则在1982年英国同阿根廷战争之后在福克兰群岛上失踪,或在海湾战争之后在中东失落等等。不过话又说回来,绝大多数还是在国内储存业务中度过自己的“后半 It is estimated that a total of 20 million TEU containers have been produced worldwide since the 1960s and about 7 million TEU are still being used in international shipping. Where did the rest go? And a large part of it was apparently scrapped. The other part only “one-way” to somewhere, and those areas no goods for transport back, then abandoned. Others were missing in the Falkland Islands after the British-Argentine war in 1982 or in the Middle East after the Gulf War. But then again, the overwhelming majority still spent their second half in the domestic storage business