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.
Farm Stores Move Into Cargotecture
U.S. bakery and dairy chain Farm Stores has started expansion plans, with some 65 drive-thru shipping container units to be built all up the East Coast.
Port of Melbourne Hits 3 Million TEUs of Shipping Containers
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…
Sydney National Museum ‘Container’ Exhibition Goes on Tour
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,…
Could Big IT Supply Free Grid Storage?
In South Australia, grid battery storage has proven itself – it is now an important part of the state’s energy mix. Typically however, the sheer cost of batteries per kilowatt hour (kWh) makes them hard to justify. Could existing large power storage systems, such as those at data centres, be used as part of the…
Project Xenia – A School Library of Two Shipping Containers
Pupils in the English North Somerset town of Clevedon have got together to fundraise for a new library consisting of two shipping containers. Clevedon is a sleepy seaside town on the Bristol Channel close to Avonmouth Docks, a medium sized port near the city of Bristol. It has a rich maritime heritage, that the pupils…
Moving Refrigerated Goods Around the World by Container: a Science not an Art!
Shipping container transport is so ubiquitous that we take it for granted that many of the goods in our home, medicines and food, may have come to us in a humble shipping container. For around the first 20 years of shipping container transport, perishable goods were a liability. In bright sunshine, the contents of the…