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- 8 Aug 11 - Top 7 Common Items that Shipping Containers Beat in Value
- 1 Jul 11 - Shipping Containers and Sustainability, Pt. 3
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Repurposing shipping containers - the Boxpert Blog
40’ Portable Storage Container Rental in Austin, TX
The most in demand box that we rent out is the 40 foot Portable Storage Container. The portable storage container has many different uses a few being: a staging area, Inventory management, supply chain management, jobsite storage, and onsite storage. One of our customers, an electrical contractor uses it as a secure place to store fittings, fixtures, and tools that will be needed to complete the job. Another one of our customers, a General contractor uses the portable storage container as a workshop that they open the doors to each day and all of their tools and supplies are dry and ready to go.
Shipping Container Art Studio
Allen Stulberg is an artist who lives in East Austin he re-purposed 2 conex boxes and turned them into an art studio. The first container was a 40 High Cube ISO container that he uses for his main studio. The second is a 20' container that he uses as an annex and material staging are for his various art projects.
Shipping Container Industry Today
Over 18 million total ISO shipping containers are making over 200 million trips between major ports around the world. The mass adoption of the shipping container gives rise to containerization, impacting the world economy in several ways:
History of the Shipping Container Industry
In April 1956, a retrofitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston, marking the birth of an industry that would drastically change international commerce and people’s lives around the world. At this time, the shipping containers were simply repurposed truck trailers. The visionary behind the power of shipping containers was Malcolm McLean. Although Malcolm was the inventor of the shipping container, it was the US military that finally did what was necessary to make the ISO shipping container, or in their lingo – conex (“container express”) -accepted by every shipping line and every country of the world. After decades of trial and error, the crude creation finally becomes an indispensable catalyst for economic globalization today. If you’re interested in more details on the history of the shipping container, check out “The Box”.