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Cargo Containers: Shipping Across Transportation Modes
Train ContainersShipping containers, also known as intermodal containers, are an integral part of modern transportation systems, and have revolutionized the logistics industry. These standardized containers have a major impact on the efficiency and convenience of...
Conex Boxes vs. Connex Boxes: What’s the Difference?
Shipping containers come in a variety of dimensions and are used in numerous applications. While they are called by a number of names, (most generally “intermodal” containers), there are other references to their types or specifications, such as “ISO containers” which...
How To Customize An Office Container
When it comes to customizing a office shipping container, the easy answer is "Just tell us, we'll get you all set up." But, there's a little more to it than that. Essentially, a shipping container is just a box. But there are a lot of options to be considered when you...
There Is No Shipping Container Shortage Here
To say that there's a shipping container shortage, it almost sounds like someone's pulling your leg. And yet, here we are. People all around the world are struggling to find enough shipping containers to meet their needs. It's not like a shipping container is a...
Alternative Uses for Shipping Containers
The economy has been hard to predict over the last couple years. You could almost do a random search on the Internet and have a better idea of which businesses will thrive and which won't. One area where we've seen some real topsy-turvy supply and demand:...
Why Is There A Shipping Container Shortage
Beware, There is a Shipping Container Shortage We often see shipping containers stacked in big towers at the docks, being pulled by the hundred on freight trains, so we tend to think of them as being available in limitless numbers. After all, it's rare that you just...
Shipping Containers at Roller Rinks
A Shipping Container at a Roller Rink! If you've never been to a roller rink, it's hard to describe just what makes it so much fun. You simply have to experience it for yourself. It's a party on wheels, minus everything that makes some parties boring. You can't dance?...
What Are Insulated Shipping Containers?
A key word in the business community these days: adaptability. That's always been a key word in business, you need to adapt to survive, but it's become more important than ever. Where businesses could once afford to adapt at their own pace, it's a whole other story...
Shipping Container Restauants
Clint Stromberg's story is an example of the American Dream come true. In the 1980s, Stromberg opened the first craft brewery in San Diego County: Bolt Brewery. Back then, craft brewing wasn't the industry it is today, where you can find a few dozen in every town....
For Businesses in Faraway Locations and Extreme Climates, Shipping Containers Are Built To Last
Once you've seen a ski lodge built out of shipping containers, it becomes pretty clear that there's not much you can't do with these things. They even use secure storage containers to build shelters and research facilities in Antarctica, which goes to show that, with...
Shipping Containers for Emergency Situations
How UC San Diego is Using Shipping Containers for Emergency Situations Take a tour of UC San Diego and you might not even notice them. Simple 10-foot shipping containers, thirteen of them in total, situated in key locations around the campus. These are emergency...
Concession Stands from Shipping Containers
For Schools, Restaurants, Medical Clinics & More Whatever event you may be planning for, whether it's a fair, an office picnic, a music festival, you're going to have a lot of little things to consider. From parking to security and yes, the concession stand. Folks...
Shipping Containers with Doors
Shipping Container Door Options Shipping containers were designed for, well, shipping. But as it turns out, when you build a container strong enough to be hauled overseas on long deliveries, you build a container strong enough to do just about anything. So, it's not...
Shipping Container Offices (Updated)
Outfitting Your Shipping Container Office No one would argue that working out of an office allows you to do your job more efficiently. But being able to enclose yourself in a private space so you can focus on your work isn't always easy to do at construction sites or...
What Can You Do With A Refrigerated Shipping Container? (Updated)
Let's look at some of the ways a reefer container can be put to good use, and how to make it all work smoothly. A refrigerated shipping container, or reefer container as they are commonly called, is the standard for transporting perishable food goods all over the...
20ft Shipping Containers are Perfect For Many Uses (Updated)
A 20ft shipping container offers companies several advantages when it comes to transporting products across the country. However, shipping containers are now being used beyond their intended purpose. The truth is that 20ft shipping containers are perfect for many...
Shipping Containers are the Workspaces of the Future (Updated)
Decentralized. That’s the keyword for the 2020s. Entertainment has been decentralized, with more and more movies skipping the theater and going right to streaming. Socialization has become decentralized, as we all have a few close friends we've never even met in...
Office Shipping Containers, A Great Solution (Updated)
For An Indefinite Problem Most people didn't expect the quarantine to last for this long. Some countries have handled it better than others, but what was expected to take perhaps a few months, at most, to get through, is still dominating our lives deep into 2020 with...
Refrigerated or an Insulated Shipping Container (Updated)
Which Shipping Container is Right for You? If you're looking to ship or store something that needs to be kept cold, you're going to have to decide between an insulated shipping container or a refrigerated container. Both have their own advantages and disadvantages,...
Shipping Containers for Construction Sites
A shipping container is, in many ways, the most viable and versatile tool on a construction site. Semi-Permanent Structures for A Semi-Permanent Jobsite What it fundamentally comes down to is the simple fact that a construction site is not a permanent fixture. Sooner...