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Have you made the decision that a storage container is what you need? Compared to other options it makes the most sense. But how do you choose the best storage container or shipping container that best fits your needs? A typical ISO shipping container is made from Cor-ten steel also known as” weathering steel”.

In Los Angeles, a startup company, Local Roots, is using 40-foot-long shipping containers and turning them into “TerraFarms” that produce as many leafy greens as five acres of farmland. Not only are they using the shipping containers to grow all these plants, they are also doing it at a much faster pace, while using as…

A new company in the shipping industry is designing a Blockchain-driven platform that, for the first time, will provide a real-time registry of more than 27 million shipping containers. The new company, Blockshipping, says its solution is called the Global Shared Container Platform (GSCP). They believe it has what it takes to address the disorganized…

Converting a shipping container into a storage unit is a great idea! This new trend has been growing in popularity over the past few years.  With the surplus of both new and used shipping containers, making the cost go way down, there are some great deals to be had when compared to other alternatives. Before…

With more refugees today than ever before, and exceedingly more expected in the coming years, the need for quick housing options is a necessity. A group of Undergraduate students have developed a way to not only build these facilities quickly but also save tens of thousands of dollars as well, using shipping containers.

In Detroit, Michigan, a food hall built from 21 rehabbed shipping containers plans to open Memorial Day weekend. Designed and built by the Detroit Shipping Company, when finished, the food hall will be a $3.1 million, 12,000-square-foot, two-story structure.

Just outside of Round Top, TX, a town that’s about an hour’s drive from Austin, is home to the newest chic hotel to hit the area in a long time. The Flophouze Hotel doesn’t look like a boutique hotel from the highway with its red and blue shipping containers that you’d typically see belted to a…

With a name like, the Cottages at Hickory Crossing, it sounds like something you might find in a nice suburban neighborhood. But the Cottages at Hickory Crossing are not out in suburbia. They are, instead, an experimental group of 50 micro-houses for the chronically homeless.

Revolutsia will be an attractive, open-air nucleus of shopping, restaurant and retail in Wichita, Kansas that will be built out of shipping containers. This new shopping center won’t be your standard strip mall, the kind common on street corners all over the heartland.

Shipping containers are one of the most well-built, durable, portable structures made.  So much so, that they are being utilized every day as an alternative to traditional framed structures.

In the early 20th century, people left their farms to come to Detroit and work in factories like Henry Ford’s. Now, in the early 21st century, the Ford Motor Company Fund is setting out to educate kids about farming and nutrition with a mobile, indoor, year-round gardening project in Detroit. Cass Community Social Services is initiating a…

In December 2014, Shared Studios launched the global public art initiative called Portals. Portals are gold-colored shipping containers equipped with immersive audiovisual technology and spread out in public sites around the world.