Portnet bites the bullet and goes metric

Alan Peat THE DECADES long debate about whether metric or imperial measures should be used when talking about container sizes has taken a new twist with Portnet recently deciding to plump for the imperial measure as its standard practice. This is a reversal of SA's previous preference for things metric, where for many years the practice has been to refer to containers by the metric equivalent - 6-metre for 20-foot, and 12-m for 40-ft. This contradicted the international practice which has always measured containers by their external length in feet. Portnet has decided to comply with this international norm and now refers to containers as 20-ft or 40-ft units. For any metriphobes out there, it might be as well to bite the bullet and start thinking in imperial feet if you don't want to create confusion in this new order of things.