As it charges forward to its target capacity of 8 million TEU capacity, the Port of Melbourne has broken an Australian record in the last year, handling 3.018 million TEUs of shipping containers. Will the locals let it reach higher? What are TEUs? Twenty-foot Equivalent Units are the units by which containers are measured. They…
The Power Turtle repurposed shipping container system is pretty cool! It’s a shipping container power system for off-grid communities to boost local economies, connect people to the Web and power schools. James van der Walt seeds micro-generation South African James van der Walt came up with the idea in 2014, where a 3kW solar array sits…
A community project in a depressed town in Tasmania is using repurposed shipping containers to help build the community out of poverty. One in four people in Break O’Day, Tasmania live below the poverty line. With this comes high rates of social exclusion, mental health problems and a lack of direction for the town’s kids….
Imagine walking off a busy street in Chicago, into a box and instantly into the Southern Alps of New Zealand. When the door closes behind you, so you are surrounded by a different world… After a breathtaking tour of this jewel of the Southern Hemisphere, you step back into reality and into another box to…
Just 157km north of Sydney, the Running Horse Wines is a shipping container cellar door that helps visitors celebrate the astounding landscape in which the vines grow, as well as enjoying the wines themselves. Vineyard owner David Fromberg started out as a jockey but as the years went on found it harder and harder to…
In the face of declining coal exports from the port, the NSW Port of Newcastle has announced plans to open a new 2 million TEU container terminal. It had problems at the outset as the NSW government had a legal agreement with the two Sydney based container ports to charge the Port of Newcastle for…
So what can life be like living in a shipping container home? The truth is that if the place is well thought out – and money spent on making it comfortable – then it can be a good space to live in. Rather like any other architecture, it can be jolly uncomfortable and a difficult…
There are millions of square kilometres of wilderness that you can’t access in a 200 metre luxury yacht. It’d be difficult to get one of those to Uluru! That’s why it seems two companies have developed giant camper vans that can take the owner in luxury over wild wastelands to wherever they choose and then…
Did you know that 99% of trade into and out of Australia comes by shipping container? Celebrating this, the National Maritime Museum has sent its ‘Container’, shipping container exhibition on tour around the country after its initial spell at the Sydney National Maritime Museum. People in Wollongong can now pay a visit to the six,…
Shipping container construction can mean that you get considerably more bang for your buck than a traditional housing construction system. The Batemans Bay shipping container holiday home on Australia’s south coast is really a case in point – let’s have a look at the place. Hiring a famous name architect can still be cheap Mona…