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Shipping Containers For Sale Near Me
Getting started in your search for a shipping container can feel like a daunting task. There's such a large variety of shipping containers for sale and ways to buy them, so it's totally understandable that you may feel overwhelmed- particularly if this is the first time you're buying shipping containers. -
How to Start Your Own Shipping Container Self-Storage Business
What you’ll learn: This blog provides all the necessary information you’ll need to know if you’re considering investing in a self-storage busine... -
How to Build a Shipping Container Cabin: A Step-by-Step Guide
Before you buy any containers or do anything else, you should have some idea how you want to live in your shipping container cabin. Figure out how much space you want, or really need, and start working up a floor plan. For the most part you will be limited to standard shipping container dimensions of 8’x20′ or 8’x40′ and multiples of these. -
The World’s First Shipping Container Bridge
Shipping containers can be made into almost any structure you need them to nowadays, including bridges. In Israel, at Ariel Sharon National Park, there is a 525-foot bridge that is made up entirely of shipping containers. -
Shipping Containers Are Finding New Uses as Drive-Thru Convenience Stores
Farm Stores is a drive-thru convenience store made of shipping containers that began in the 1950s in Florida, selling fresh food and dairy products. The stores also sell basic household things like pet food and cleaning products. This month the franchise will be opening a new model, a store made up of two shipping containers. -
Portable Shipping Container Hospitals and Clinics Come to You
Imagine living in a third world country where getting to anything that resembles civilization can take hours or days to reach. Or if a major earthquake, hurricane, or tornado has affected the area you live in and rendered your local hospitals and clinics useless. Every human being should have access to quality health and dental care and immediate attention, and that’s where portable clinics assembled with shipping containers come into play.
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YEG Coffee Can: Shipping Container Coffee Shop
Shipping containers are always being used in fun, innovative ways these days, and one new interesting take on the recycled container is from YEG Coffee Can in Edmonton, Alberta has a new take on the coffee can, by setting up a coffee shop in a shipping container. -
Wichita Fire Department Builds Shipping Container Training Facility
The Wichita Fire Department has been building their own training facility out of shipping containers. They constructed six shipping containers int... -
Twitter Uses Shipping Containers to Create a Global Conversation
Twitter has repurposed shipping containers all over the world to have live video conversations with others visiting those containers. -
Stay Cool with a Shipping Container Swimming Pool
A pool is a common way for people to cool off in the summer, but finding a quality, above-ground pool can be difficult. Until now. Converting a shipping container into a swimming pool is a more affordable option, and you can do it with only a little help. -
Portable Shipping Container Tiki Bar in Long Beach, California
Tiki bars just keep moving up in the world, but Marie’s Tek-Tec in Long Beach might be the first tiki bar we’ve heard of that can actually move. It’s housed in a custom-converted shipping container that opens up to be a full-fledged drinkery, but can also fold up, hitch to a truck and be moved to new locations for pop-ups and events. -
'World's Biggest, Slowest, and Most Impractical Camera' Made in a Shipping Container
Shipping containers have been turned into some interesting and unusual things over the years, but one photographer has found a new use for them: a giant camera. Photographer Brendan Barry turned a shipping container into a giant camera that even has a built-in darkroom.
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