The Bay Area of northern California is renowned for being very expensive. With Silicon Valley just up the road and full of millionaire IT execs, it has a problem in that the little guys who serve the high rollers have difficulty in living and working anywhere near. The Bay Area Glass Blowing Institute (BAGI) is…
The Welsh Government has just given outline approval for a 400 shipping container ‘Box City’ to be developed in a derelict area of the capital city, Cardiff. It is expected that this will draw the young and upwardly mobile types who have lots of disposable income and will help drive the local economy. Shipping containers,…
Retired UK Royal Air Force engineer Paul Chambers and his wife Sarah moved to the Australian bush to escape their noisy neighbours in Kent, England. They built their home from scratch using two, 40ft shipping containers, and now have published two e-books that describe the best way to hand build a shipping container home. A…
Afghanistan has a lot of problems, from extremist Islamists trying to fight their way into government, to years of invasion by different power blocs in the world that have, let’s face it, not done a brilliant job in sorting out that country’s ills. Women and girls face repression on a massive scale due to cultural…
Thor Pedersen left his home in Denmark in 2014 with the plan to see every country in the world without flying, in fact he’s chosen a novel way of travelling – by container ship. He has a budget of $20 a day to include food and travel, and three years later has been to more…
One ripe criticism from beer drinkers about certain beers is that it ‘tastes like piss’. But it seems that beer made from recycled sewerage doesn’t taste of it at all. While not legal in most countries to make beer from water that has been through people’s bodies in the last few hours, a new shipping…
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…