SHIPPING CONTAINERS

Discover All that You Need to Know About Shipping Containers

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A news source for Dfreight discusses the shipping containers and everything you need to know about them.

Shipping containers

Shipping containers have been around for over 50 years, and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) spearheaded its standardization shortly thereafter. They are used to transport millions of tons of cargo every day to thousands of ports worldwide. Without shipping containers, the world supply chain would come to a halt, and...

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Discover All that You Need to Know About Shipping Containers

Credit: frank mckenna/Unsplash

A news source for Dfreight discusses the shipping containers and everything you need to know about them.

Shipping containers

Shipping containers have been around for over 50 years, and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) spearheaded its standardization shortly thereafter. They are used to transport millions of tons of cargo every day to thousands of ports worldwide. Without shipping containers, the world supply chain would come to a halt, and...

https://mfame.guru/discover-all-that-you-need-to-know-about-shipping-containers/

Shipping Containers Emit 2% of World Emissions

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Shipping containers account for 2% of global emissions — wind-powered sails could help, states a Boisestatepublicradio news source.

Shipping goods across the globe conjures images of massive cargo ships

Shipping goods across the globe conjures images of massive cargo ships stacked high with metal containers holding goods from around the world. But the cost in fuel and CO2 emissions from these journeys is high. The shipping industry accounts for more than 2%...

https://mfame.guru/shipping-containers-emit-2-of-world-emissions/

What It’s Really Like Living in A Shipping Container

Credits: Viking Life-Saving Equipment

Max McMurdo is a designer, TV presenter and upcycling expert.Not only does he design and sell things like chairs made out of shopping trollies but he also upcycled his entire home – a shipping container that floats on water. The bookcase is made from an old ladder, a table from a wash drum and lampshades from jelly moulds – and, he says, there is more to come, reports Metro.

Where do you live and how important is having an eco home to you?

I live in a floating...

https://mfame.guru/what-its-really-like-living-in-a-shipping-container/

Congress directs action on broker-related regulations

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A fiscal year 2023 funding bill unveiled Tuesday includes updated measures affecting trucking and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/congress-directs-action-on-broker-related-regulations

Global shortage of shipping containers highlights their importance in getting goods to Amazon warehouses, store shelves and your door in time for Christmas

Pictured: containers in a yard. The global economy depends on shipping containers. Photo credit: Chuttersnap via Unsplash.

Anna Nagurney, UMass Amherst

Take a look around you.

Perhaps you’re snacking on a banana, sipping some coffee or sitting in front of your computer and taking a break from work to read this article. Most likely, those goods – as well as your smartphone, refrigerator and virtually every other object in your home – once were loaded onto a large container in another country and...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/global-shortage-of-shipping-containers-highlights-their-importance-in-getting-goods-to-amazon-warehouses-store-shelves-and-your-door-in-time-for-christmas/

Containerized solar water farms provide clean water, jobs for locals

GivePower's Solar Water Farm Max is shown, which has a solar panel roof above a desalination system and water tanks.

More than 2 billion people globally lack access to clean drinking water, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nonprofit organization GivePower is aiming to reduce that number by using the sun’s energy, shipping containers, desalination technology and local supply chains.

GivePower builds and delivers containerized solar-powered water farms that desalinate salty water. The organization focuses on areas where “there’s an immediate and growing need for better access to safe...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/containerized-solar-water-farms-provide-clean-water-jobs-for-locals

Can accordion-style folding containers unclog crowded ports, distribution centers?

Staxxon's folding shipping containers can fold five in the space of one.

Local union freight workers were among those New Jersey-based Staxxon approached for initial feedback on its shipping containers that fold and bundle for space-saving storage.

After examining the containers, the workers offered an unexpected response.

“They said all of our open profiles … needed to be sealed off so people couldn’t put drugs inside them and smuggle them in,” George Kochanowski, founder and CEO of Staxxon, told FreightWaves.

The safety beams and the headers and sills that frame the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/can-accordion-style-folding-containers-unclog-crowded-ports-distribution-centers

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