Shipping containers have a variety of uses, but if you have been in an empty one you wouldn’t be so sure they could be converted into a great music studio. They echo and reverberate when you speak in them. One legendary singer has taken full advantage of this sound effect, while another in Australia has…
Here at the Gateway Gazette we have shown some pretty cool shipping container conversions. But this shipping container conversion could save millions of lives – a 20ft shipping container hospital surgical sterilisation unit. In developing countries the rates of post-operative infection are huge, with around 1 in 3 people undergoing even the simplest surgery getting…
The advent of shipping containers in then 1950’s was the beginning of a long road toward an unmanned supply chain. In this blog we will look at the history of automation and how it will one day lead to an unmanned supply chain. Firstly, let’s look at what we mean by automation and unmanned: automation…
Here at the Gateway Gazette we look at a lot of Western uses for reused shipping containers, yet by virtue of their solidity and security shipping containers can be used in quite hostile and disconnected environments. An international development charity called Computer Aid understood these attributes in 2010 when it developed its first Zubabox, a…
At the beginning of 2016, the world’s first Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) container ship, the Issa Bella entered service between Puerto Rico and Fort Lauderdale. This ship could well be the beginning of a cleaner, greener revolution in powering ships around the world. Shipping companies around the world are looking to convert their ships’ engines…
All over the world people are winding up their work and starting to overindulge on food and booze for the Christmas party season. Why not? Tis the season to be jolly! For many Down Under their plans will centre around a beach and hopefully a bar close by to lubricate the atmosphere… The best bars…
The TV show Grand Designs started in the UK in 1999, and has been syndicated around the world. The TV show looks at novel and exciting self-build projects from a woodsman’s cruck framed and straw bale house at one extreme, to mighty mansions at the other. In the UK it has a cult following as…
Nearly one in ten people around the world do not have access to clean drinking water – that is 783 million people. Global warming is adding to the problem with rising sea levels meaning salt water can reach into previously safe water supplies, while increasingly violent storms wash impurities into water supplies. One solution to…
Last week Gateway Gazette showed how China is developing a nuclear power plant that is so small that it can fit in a 40ft shipping container. Whereas this makes some people feel uneasy for a variety of reasons, this week’s shipping container power generation is somewhat better for the environment and regional stability – portable…
Here at Gateway Gazette we have looked at some pretty amazing things that have been made using shipping containers from eco friendly farms, to million dollar mansions. Now China is developing a nuclear power plant that can fit inside a shipping container and could contribute to a change in the balance of power in the…