All About 20ft Shipping Containers
In this blog we take a closer look at 20ft shipping containers, one of the most popular container sizes for sale or hire here at Gateway.
Container Storage Tips & Tricks
Need a container for storage or moving abroad? Our shipping container packing tips show you how to pack your goods for maximum efficiency and protection.
Choosing A Shipping Container Couldn’t Be Easier
Whatever your goal is, transport, storage or architecture, find out how to choose a shipping container to hire or buy that’s right for you.
Why Have a Lockbox On Your Shipping Container?
Lockboxes give you added peace of mind when storing goods in a shipping container. Find out about shipping container lockboxes.
Droughts and Soil Erosion – Could Shipping Container Farms Save Us?
A new shipping container farm has opened in Brisbane, supplying local businesses with herbs and vegetables that may otherwise have had to be imported from far away. The farm owner went into container farming due to drought on his own land. With our ever less predictable climate, there’s a risk that what arable topsoil we…
A Novel Way of Hiding a Shipping Container
A businessman has been given an award for the way he hid his shipping container storage unit in plain sight. No matter the wonders of shipping containers – they don’t fit just anywhere… They can sit very well in a post-industrial landscape full of old warehouses and port machinery. The quasi brutalist nature of the…
Container Mall Developers Hope to Regenerate Centre of Newcastle, UK
Could a shipping container mall revive the centre of Newcastle in England? Nearly every city in the world has a carbuncle of derelict land near their centres where antisocial behaviour reigns and the general population avoids. The hope is that by having bars, restaurants and boutique shops in a currently struggling part of the former…
Containerships Over 20,000 TEU – What’s The Push Behind Building Bigger?
After five years where containerships seemed to stabilise in size at a capacity of around 18,000 Twenty Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) in size, shipping companies are building bigger again. Now the biggest containership has a capacity of nearly 21,500 TEU. What’s the push behind building bigger? Economies of scale – the bigger the ships, the…
Weird and Wonderful Things Carried in Shipping Containers
Container ships have revolutionised the world of cargo. Where once moving goods by sea cost around 25% of their final retail value, container ships have brought the cost down to as little as 2.5 cents per unit for a 5,000 mile journey across the ocean. The trade off is that where once cargo was visible…
Can Wrongly Loaded Container Ships Really Snap in Two?
On the 17 June 2013, the five year old container ship MOL Comfort started to break up off Mumbai, India. It was gradual, with steel plates buckling and letting water into the hold, before the cracks in the hull eventually lead to it snapping in half after the ship caught fire. Luckily the crew were able…