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Shipping Containers Containers are the most cost efficient method of moving goods around the world safely. We can supply containers at any location on the UK mainland for delivery to any deep water international port in the world at a very competetive price. With our purchasing power, we negotiate very advantageous rates from the shipping lines, and with the volume we trade in can pass these savings onto our customers. HISTORY OF SHIPPING CONTAINERS Effectively in operation since the 1960's, they allow a fast turnaround and clearance in ports, giving more security for the consignments than was possible under the outdated system of cargo ships being loaded by hand or by crane. Theft is virtually abolished, and goods arrive intact as they are enclosed in a secure steel box that protects the consignment from the elements.
The first vessels purpose-built to carry containers began operation in Denmark in 1951. Ships began carrying containers between Seattle and Alaska in 1951. The worlds first truly intermodal container system used purpose-built container ship the Clifford J. Rodgers built in Montreal in 1955 and owned by the White Pass and Yukon Route. Its first trip carried 600 containers between North Vancouver, British Columbia and Skagway, Alaska on November 26, 1955; in Skagway, the containers were unloaded to purpose-built railroad cars for transport north to the Yukon, in the first intermodal service using trucks, ships and railroad cars. Southbound containers were loaded by shippers in the Yukon, moved by rail, ship and truck, to their consignees, without opening. This first intermodal system operated from November 1955 for many years.
The U.S. container shipping industry dates to 1956, when trucking entrepreneur Malcom McLean put 58 containers aboard a refitted tanker ship, the "Ideal-X," and sailed them from Newark to Houston. What was new about McLean's innovation was the idea of using large containers that were never opened in transit between shipper and consignee and that were transferable on an intermodal basis, among trucks, ships and railroad cars. McLean had initially favored the construction of "trailerships" - taking trailers from large trucks and stowing them in a ship’s cargo hold. This method of stowage, referred to as roll-on/roll-off, was not adopted because of the large waste in potential cargo space onboard the vessel, known as broken stowage. Instead, he modified his original concept into loading just the containers, not the chassis, onto the ships, hence the designation container ship or "box" ship
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Dry Cargo Standard Container
SPECIFICATIONS
20' Dry Cargo Container
Inside Cubic Capacity 32.8cu.m (1,158 cu.ft) Cargo Capacity 21,640 kg (47,716 Ibs.) Tare weight 2,360 kg (5,204 Ibs.) OUTSIDE: Length 6.05m (19.88 ft) Width 2.44m (8.00 ft) 2.35m Height 2.59m (8.50 ft) INSIDE: Length 6.05m (19.88 ft) 5.90m Width 2.35m (7.71 ft) Height 2.38m (7.80 ft) DOOR SIZE: Height 2.28m (7.48 ft) Width 2.35m (7.71 ft) 40' Dry Cargo Container 67.2cu.m (2,372 cu.ft) Inside Cargo Capacity 26,500 kg (58,433 Ibs.)
Tare weight 3,980 kg (8,776 Ibs.) OUTSIDE: Length 12.19m (40 ft) Width 2.44m (8.00 ft) 2.35m Height 2.59m (8.50 ft) INSIDE: Length 12.01m (39.39 ft) Width 2.35m (7.71 ft) Height 2.38m (7.80 ft) DOOR SIZE:
Height 2.28m (7.48 ft) Width 2.35m (7.71 ft)
| Container Types Available General purpose dry cargo for boxes, cartons, cases, sacks, bales, pallets, drums in standard, high or half height (as on the left)
High cube palletwide containers for europallet compatibility
Temperature controlled from −25 °C to +25 °C reefer
Open top bulktainers for bulk minerals, heavy machinery
Open side for loading oversize pallet
Flushfolding flat-rack containers for heavy and bulky semi-finished goods, out of gauge cargo
Platform or bolster for barrels and drums, crates, cable drums, out of gauge cargo, machinery, and processed timber
Ventilated containers for organic products requiring ventilation
Tank containers for bulk liquids and dangerous goods
Rolling floor for difficult to handle cargo
Gas bottle
Generator
Collapsible ISO
Swapbody
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