Shipping Container Ideas and Articles
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Shipping container flooring has seen various changes over the years, and the type of flooring can depend on the type of container or the company that originally had the container built. If your plans are to purchase a container for intermodal shipping or to use as a mobile storage unit, you may not need to be overly concerned with the flooring material and structure. If you plan to modify a co ...
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When you shop for a new or used shipping container you will undoubtably find a variety of prices available. It is easy to buy the first cheap storage container you find, but you must also consider what goes into shipping containers prices in order to determine if that great deal is really as good as it seems. The most common variables that impact the price of a shipping container are:
Size,
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Concrete slab foundations for your container project are the largest, and most expensive type of foundation that you can build. For many types of projects concrete footings or wooden beam footings are suitable, and due to cost and the amount of time involved there are few situations when you would need to create a container foundation this large.
The variable that has the greatest impact on cost ...
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We hope you are having a great Labor Day weekend and are ready to usher in Autumn in style. The ContainerAuction.com office will be closed on Monday, September 7th, 2020 and closed all afternoon on Tuesday, September 8th, 2020.
The global supply of shipping containers is still tight during the COVID epidemic, but we have hope going into the last quarter of the year. We have been successful mo ...
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Materials Needed:
Premix Concrete - total amount depends on your geographic area
Loose stone or gravel
1/4" plywood to construct the form
2"x2" or similar wood planks to construct the form
Using concrete footings as a foundation for your shipping or storage container falls in the middle cost range of the three options. It's cost effective, durable, but requires more time and attention w ...
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Storage rental is a booming industry, and if you have the space and capital investment it's not hard to step into the business by using shipping containers for storage units. There are two general types of storage business models that can be started, or if you can find one for sale you can hit the ground running.
What You Need to Start
Before you can get into any business, you need to have a ...
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Grading the condition of a shipping container may seem like a fairly simple, uniform task, it's not nearly as simple and uniform as it appears on the surface (no pun intended). The reasons for this are fairly simple, and the next few paragraphs will walk through why there is some confusion in grading and what the more general terms and ideas in container grading are.
Why Container Grading isn ...
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Shipper owned containers, or SOC, are just as they sound, a shipping container owned by the company or person that is shipping the goods; as opposed to a container that is owned by the logistics company supporting the movement of the container, or the shipping line providing the actual overseas movement of the container. SOC are a little unique in that once the goods arrive on site, the container ...
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As the world still sits largely in some form of lock down, the supply of new and used shipping containers is still being choked due to the inhibitors to international trade. East-west container supply has slowed dramatically, and shipping lines and container leasing companies on both sides of the Pacific have taken measures to manage their fleets as effectively as possible. Due to this, both new a ...
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Once again, much of the south east and east coast of the United States is in the middle of hurricane season. During this season our staff sees a surge in questions about how well a new or used shipping container can withstand a hurricane, and the answer is pretty.
A lot of the strength and integrity lies in if/how the container is modified, and how it"s anchored to the ground. The three main ...
