Moving a shipping container around the world today is a lot more efficient than the old ‘break bulk’ method. Though on the ground the movements can be quite simple, there is still a lot of inefficiency in getting a company to handle those movements. After establishing the problem we will look at four companies trying…
If you go out in the woods today in the US it helps to wear a flak jacket. If you have a hunting lodge it also helps if it can stop bullets entering. While the US is the epicentre of mass shootings due to its gun addiction, many gun users have them to hunt, and…
A box of tricks that stops malnutrition, tackles food poverty and creates jobs. A top end shipping container indoor farm can sell cheaper and better produce to Inuit villages than food flown in from urban centres in Canada. The problem Inuit communities face Isolated Inuit communities in the far north of Canada have a problem:…
Could smart shipping containers be a way of guaranteeing your shipment gets to its destination? Did you know that cargo theft in the US costs shippers something like $30 billion a year? What about the fact that 10,000 shipping containers a year are lost over the side from ships at sea? Several million shipping containers…
Here at Gateway Container Sales we love shipping container architecture! Shipping containers are a quick, cheap, effective and environmentally sustainable way of building new homes. Not everyone thinks like us. Councils around the world are the ultimate arbiters of whether you will end up building your shipping container home, and sadly this won’t always happen….
A place to chill out away from the fast lane life of New York City? For all the buzz of living in one of the greatest cities in the world, where something is always happening 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, sometimes even some of the most hardcore city dwellers need a break…
The humble shipping container has changed the world out of recognition since 1958 when they were invented. A new exhibition in the National Maritime Museum in Sydney celebrates the way they have. The moon and back twice over? So many things we take for granted in our world have travelled tens of thousands of kilometres…
Here in Australia we know a thing or two about wildfires – they are no joke and are one of the greatest natural threats we have to our property and lives. Could shipping container villages be set up to support people in their first few nights after surviving a blaze? A number of shipping container…
A British architect has designed a starburst shaped shipping container mansion and has plans to build it in the California Desert.
A new ski and yoga resort has opened in the Georgian Caucasus Mountains that is built entirely of shipping containers. Tourists from Europe, the US and Antipodes just don’t visit this place, so if you’re thinking of going to one of the most stunning yet unexplored places in the world, this could well be worth…