Shipping Container Ideas and Articles
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Portable office buildings are mobile units that primarily serve as temporary office solutions. Portable buildings are typically storage or cargo containers that can be moved or repositioned from one location to another. This type of temporary office solution is particularly handy when there is a short term need for office space.
While typically used as temporary solutions; these buildings ha ...
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Anyone who's shopped for a shipping container or works around them is aware of the conventional 20' and 40' containers sizes, but what many people don't know is how and why other container sizes are used and occasionally available in the market. Non-international sizes like 10', 48', and 53' shipping containers are common in some markets, although their size limits their international mobility ...
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Once you've decided to purchase a shipping container and convert it into a storage unit, it's important to decide where it's going to be placed. A solid foundation for your container isn't an absolute requirement for your container; however along with making keeping it stable and square, it can greatly reduce your storage units exposure to moisture and the corrosion that follows. Depending on you ...
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The issue of how to grade shipping containers is always a subject of debate, and many companies have their own internal system of grading containers. When buying a container online, it's advised to ask the seller any questions prior to making a bid or purchasing. It's important to note that some containers, such as tank containers, carry other more specific guidelines for grading ...
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It is easy to expect the current shipping container shortage to run into, at least, early next year as China's main factories are keeping production very low. Prices on new containers have surged as shipping lines and leasing companies have cut back on sale equipment to retain the available inventory for their own use. Many of the current containers being sold are in dead end markets or being sold ...
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Many customers ask about shipping contianer deliver, and while it's not a service that ContainerAuction directly provides we have helped plan and coordinate many deliveries and are willing to provide any advise or assistance that we can.
Storage Container Delivery Checklist
A majority of the time shipping and storage containers are delivered by a tilt bed trailer. With this in mind, before you sch ...
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Shipping containers have a great impact on our daily lives, but what do you really know about them? They carry a large percentage of the goods that impact our daily lives, and many people work with them (both directly and indirectly) in business.
Since many people don't think about containers on a regular basis, we tend to be asked questions that are often times taken for granted by industry profe ...
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It's common knowledge that shipping containers come in different sizes, the most common being 20' and 40' containers; what many people don't think about is that there are several types of shipping containers, each designed for different uses. The history of intermodal shipping is relatively short, but in that short period of time shipping lines have been very effective at designing the most effici ...
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There are lots of misconceptions about shipping container conversion projects. Naturally, people are reluctant to go blindly into a new project for converting a container into a home, storage unit, or work site office. As more and more containers are released into the retail consumer market, supplies are becoming more and more creative with the design, use, and applications of converted cargo co ...
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Columbus Day is already on us, and it has been a challenging 2020 so far. Our office will be closed on Monday, October 12, 2020 for Columbus Day; however we will be monitoring emails throughout the day.
Bookings have been growing in volume; however equipment inventory is still in tight supply. If you need a large volume of containers (new or used) it's best to plan in advance so that we can provid ...
