That a shipping container is a metal box shouldn’t deter you from designing and building a container home in a hot environment – many people, have done this very successfully! We will look at some ideas that work, and some that don’t in this piece. They include using your garden to shade you, as well as…
As more and more people become concerned with emergency preparedness, shipping containers present an interesting use case as “bug out shelters.” The idea of a bug out shelter stems from the concept of nuclear “fallout shelters.” At its core, it’s essentially a backup location, where someone can temporarily retreat to for protection from natural or…
Shipping containers have an almost endless array of uses after they have travelled the world delivering goods. One of the most recent uses has been as schools and classrooms – whether as an IT suite at an orphanage in Africa, a classroom space in a UK state school or a whole private school in fashionable Orange…
If you’ve been watching the news recently you will have seen the huge refugee crisis that has hit Europe as millions of people have escaped war torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa for safety. This has led to boom time for one industry – the shipping container conversion industry – which has…
Shipping containers have a number of features that make them extremely good shelters and laboratories for scientists working in the frozen wastes of Antarctica. They can be converted to their end use in a factory environment. This means a whole research station can be built in a factory in somewhere like Australia or South Africa,…
With the development of hydroponics and vertical indoor farming, it has become possible to use shipping containers to grow food. One 40ft shipping container can produce a similar amount of food to a five acre farm! New developments in the system mean that you could even produce fish, giving you protein to eat as well. The…
According to the laws of physics, anything that is less dense than fluid will float on top of it. This is why oil floats on water, but is also the reason that 500,000 tonne oil tankers don’t sink! You can have any number of shipping containers attached together to create a home or office complex…
Shipping container solar power stations are being created for diverse uses. In this post we take a look at how a shipping container solar power station can be used in three ways, as a military solution, getting power where it is badly needed to support communities and for mobile courier delivery in big cities. 1. Military solutions The US Military has recently announced that it…
Shipping containers are only used for their main job – transporting goods around the world – for between 7 to 10 years. They can last far longer than that, with some experts estimating that they can live for 30 years or more. At Gateway Container Sales we think 30 years may be a little conservative…
Shipping containers can last for decades. Some of the ones that were first made in the 1960s when the standardised ’20 Foot Equivalent Unit’ (TEU) was first devised are still sitting where they were left many years ago. There is a well-known oversupply of shipping containers around the world because they can be made so cheaply,…