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.
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…
New Container Terminal Planned for Newcastle, NSW
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…
Luxury Off-road Camper Vans That Fit in Shipping Containers
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…
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,…
LNG Bunker Barge Built To Fuel Puerto Rico Containerships
Two liquefied natural gas (LNG) powered containerships now serve the island of Puerto Rico, justifying the construction and delivery of a LNG bunker barge that has now been delivered to the island. Let’s first of all look at the Marlin Class container ships and then look at the new barge that has been built to fuel…
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…
Maersk to Use LiDAR on Containerships to Save Lives at Sea
Big containerships have a big problem – they frequently can’t see other vessels when they come in too close to their bows. The first thing they may know of a potential collision is after they have rammed and sank the other vessel. Maersk have recently hired the US AI and automation company Sea Machines to get…