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Many see shipping containers as those scruffy metal boxes on the side of the road, in fields, and on building sites. We hope we are about to surprise you with the facts. Shipping containers are available as new or used in 10ft, 20ft of 40ft lengths and are 8ft wide as standard in order to meet ISO (International Shipping) regulations, these tough regulations ensure that the ISO container supplied meets strict design and manufacturing standards to provide a high quality, fit for purpose shipping container. The container industry describes a new container as a steel unit complying with ISO standards which has been loaded with cargo at its place of manufacture, transported to the UK and then sold to the domestic market.A used container is a unit that following its initial journey as a new shipping container has been used several more times for either shipping or secure storage of goods in the domestic market. 20ft Steel Shipping Containers are the most common type of shipping container or storage unit and can be used for a variety of applications.They can be used either on their own, or joined with other sizes to make the following: Anti Vandal Units Bunded Containers Container Changing Rooms Containerised Boiler Housing Security Hut Container Shipping Container Architecture Shipping Container Art Project Shipping Container Exhibition Stands Shipping Container Hotels Shipping Container Housing Shipping Container Recording Studio Shipping Container School Shipping Container Restaurant Shipping Container Shop Shipping Container Swimming Pool Site Canteen Containers Site Office Containers Steel Garden Offices Steel Garden Sheds Welfare Units When it comes to shipping think of your container as a Lego block... Each shipping container has to be of a specific height, width and length in order to conform to the needs of a cargo ship. Imagine your container as a Lego block stacking on top of, side by side and opposite other Lego blocks; one block with an awkward dimension would prevent you from stacking or siting other blocks, this is much the same as shipping containers on cargo vessels. Each of the lifting eyes situated on the four corners of a container have to be able to connect together in order to make container shipping as economical as possible and to be able to fit into the standard lifting equipment on docks. Therefore, shipping containers are only available in 20ft and 40ft lengths. Whilst you can ship extraordinary units on a vessel, they are classified as “undersized” or “oversized” cargo and therefore not only cost much more to manufacture but also cost more to ship as they sit on individual bays on the vessel where no other equipment can be stacked on top of them. Shipping Containers also have some more amazing facts... Fact #1 It is estimated that there are over 600,000,000 shipping containers in the world today. Fact #2 Shipping containers were first developed by Mclean and Talinger in 1955, they were invented for the easy stacking and uniformed length and width which could be applied internationally. Fact #3 Containers reached ISO standard (International Organisation for Standardisation) in 1961 and the container revolution was born. Fact #4 It is estimated that 8,000 containers are lost at sea every year and many do not sink! Fact #5 The largest container ships can carry nearly 16,000 20ft containers. Fact #6 A large container ship engine is similar in size to a six-story building. Fact #7 Over 1,000,000,000 tonnes of cargo is carried annually in containers and containers transport half of the total value of global goods moved by sea.
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