Future Minimum Lease Payments Receivable under Direct Financing and Sales-type Leases (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Dec. 31, 2021	Dec. 31, 2020
Leases [Abstract]
Container leaseback financing receivable, 2022	$ 50,515
Container leaseback financing receivable, 2023	50,514
Container leaseback financing receivable, 2024	46,427
Container leaseback financing receivable, 2025	39,015
Container leaseback financing receivable, 2026	37,524
Container leaseback financing receivable, 2027 and thereafter	259,330
Container leaseback financing receivable, Total future minimum lease payments receivable	483,325	$ 505,473
Net investment in finance leases, 2022	215,431
Net investment in finance leases, 2023	205,192
Net investment in finance leases, 2024	201,925
Net investment in finance leases, 2025	196,225
Net investment in finance leases, 2026	198,151
Net investment in finance leases, 2027 and thereafter	1,541,415
Net investment in finance leases, Total future minimum lease payments receivable	2,558,339	$ 1,216,086
Future minimum lease payments receivable, 2022	265,946
Future minimum lease payments receivable, 2023	255,706
Future minimum lease payments receivable, 2024	248,352
Future minimum lease payments receivable, 2025	235,240
Future minimum lease payments receivable, 2026	235,675
Future minimum lease payments receivable, 2027 and thereafter	1,800,745
Total future minimum lease payments receivable	$ 3,041,664

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Container leaseback financing receivable payments to be received five years.

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Container leaseback financing receivable payments to be received four years.

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Container leaseback financing receivable payments to be received next twelve months.

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Container leaseback financing receivable payments to be received six years and thereafter.

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Container leaseback financing receivable payments to be received three years.

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Container leaseback financing receivable payments to be received two years.

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Amount of undiscounted cash flows to be received by lessor for sales-type and direct financing leases.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 842
-SubTopic 30
-Section 50
-Paragraph 10
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=124258985&loc=SL77919391-209981

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Amount of undiscounted cash flows to be received by lessor for sales-type and direct financing leases in third fiscal year following current fiscal year. Excludes interim and annual periods when interim periods are reported from current statement of financial position date (rolling approach).

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Amount of undiscounted cash flows to be received by lessor for sales-type and direct financing leases in second fiscal year following current fiscal year. Excludes interim and annual periods when interim periods are reported from current statement of financial position date (rolling approach).

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