Shipping Container (Standard)
8′6″ (102 in / 259 cm)
Tale of the Tape
Challenger
“The Baseline”
VS
Contender
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Height
5′7″
Inches
67
Metric
170
cm
5′7″
baseline
8′6″
Shipping Container (Standard)
That's 35 inches taller.
A standard 20-foot shipping container is 8 feet 6 inches tall. You could stack a Tom Cruise and a large dog inside and still close the doors.
Fun Fact
There are roughly 17 million shipping containers in the world. At any given time, about 6 million are at sea. Some inevitably fall overboard — about 1,400 per year.