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.
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…
The Race for Car Power – A Shipping Container Unit To Power Vehicles
There’s a race on to power the transport of the future. Carbon isn’t even in the running. The two front runners are hydrogen and batteries as a method of storing electricity. In this piece we will look at a zero carbon emission hydrogen extraction and storage plant that sits in a shipping container, while reflecting…
Lifeboat Station In a Shipping Container?
We’ve touched on some great uses for shipping containers here at the Gateway Gazette. Here’s one of the most purposeful: a lifeboat station in a shipping container. This isn’t some rusty box dragged onto a beach, but is one where the entire lifeboat station and boat are built in the UK and donated to countries…
Grid Batteries in Shipping Containers – Renewables are Here to Stay!
In September 2016 there was a statewide power outage across South Australia. Renewable energy haters leapt into the fray, wrongly blaming the wind energy supplying the grid in the storm. Much to the chagrin of the renewable energy haters, the solution to the problem was found in a Tesla battery system and not a new…
SideArm: Bringing Fire to the Enemy in a Shipping Container
Whatever you think of the United States projecting their strength around the world, they sometimes come up with some pretty cool gadgets to make this happen. The US military research lab DARPA’s newest toy is the SideArm, a launching and recovery system for unmanned drones, that fits inside the footprint of a 20ft shipping container…
Biocement Stored & Dried in Shipping Containers
Emitting a tonne of carbon for every tonne made, cement manufacture is one of the biggest single contributors to manmade global warming with an estimated 5% of manmade emissions coming from it. Scientists in the US have come upon a natural way of creating a form of cement using bacteria. Dirty cement Cement is used…
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…