Using Old Shipping Containers For Businesses, Domiciles, and Other Uses Considered
Shipping containers for the most part are made of steel and they are quite solid.
Over time they need to be retired due to corrosion, rust, and damage, when the doors don't shut exactly perfect for a good seal.
These strong containers can be used for many things.
Not long ago, I was brain storming with an acquaintance of mine and she mentioned that she "read somewhere, of a woman who started a non-profit organization of buying those shipping containers and converting them in to a mobile clinic.
" Indeed, and what a perfect use for an old shipping container.
In fact, I had heard of this too, and I have previously mentioned the use of cargo container small businesses for economic development in micro-loan programs in eBooks before, for instance; using them in urban slums, and in rural poor areas.
They can be used for make-shift classrooms, shelters, homes, you name it.
And yes, what a great plan because it makes sense for small village clinics in many third world nations.
Consider if you will another issue, my acquaintance advised me that "there are over 2 million containers somewhere in the world sitting around doing nothing.
" And this was certainly true during the recession.
However in the future that was the case, but it may not be in the future Global Shipping is really a fast mover right now, many of the largest global shipping companies are building upwards of 100-additional cargo ships, which is also causing issues in World Steel Prices, good for ship builders, international trade, and steel industry, but it does use up all those containers that were sitting around.
New containers are being built as fast as possible and in some places they are trying to kick out people, who've squatted in those containers sitting around, for instance in many of the manufacturing port cities in China now that things are rolling again due to rebounding of global economic catastrophe.
Oh sure, there will be future economic challenges the world faces during this recovery and we could double-dippity doo dah the world back into the economic abyss, and thus, more availability for containers.
And these containers do have a useful life, they do rust out over time, they won't last forever, many do need to be replaced now.
And so, I can certainly understand what my acquaintance was referring to - I understand what she is saying, it would make sense to make dibs on these old containers now, before they are brought back into service, it's amazing all the architecture that is being done with that regards.
Also the US Military is putting together cargo container units for their uses, and so is FEMA, Red Cross, UN and many NGOs.
You know, thanks, this is a good topic for an article, and why I wanted to bring it to your attention and why I wrote it up! Please be thinking here.
Over time they need to be retired due to corrosion, rust, and damage, when the doors don't shut exactly perfect for a good seal.
These strong containers can be used for many things.
Not long ago, I was brain storming with an acquaintance of mine and she mentioned that she "read somewhere, of a woman who started a non-profit organization of buying those shipping containers and converting them in to a mobile clinic.
" Indeed, and what a perfect use for an old shipping container.
In fact, I had heard of this too, and I have previously mentioned the use of cargo container small businesses for economic development in micro-loan programs in eBooks before, for instance; using them in urban slums, and in rural poor areas.
They can be used for make-shift classrooms, shelters, homes, you name it.
And yes, what a great plan because it makes sense for small village clinics in many third world nations.
Consider if you will another issue, my acquaintance advised me that "there are over 2 million containers somewhere in the world sitting around doing nothing.
" And this was certainly true during the recession.
However in the future that was the case, but it may not be in the future Global Shipping is really a fast mover right now, many of the largest global shipping companies are building upwards of 100-additional cargo ships, which is also causing issues in World Steel Prices, good for ship builders, international trade, and steel industry, but it does use up all those containers that were sitting around.
New containers are being built as fast as possible and in some places they are trying to kick out people, who've squatted in those containers sitting around, for instance in many of the manufacturing port cities in China now that things are rolling again due to rebounding of global economic catastrophe.
Oh sure, there will be future economic challenges the world faces during this recovery and we could double-dippity doo dah the world back into the economic abyss, and thus, more availability for containers.
And these containers do have a useful life, they do rust out over time, they won't last forever, many do need to be replaced now.
And so, I can certainly understand what my acquaintance was referring to - I understand what she is saying, it would make sense to make dibs on these old containers now, before they are brought back into service, it's amazing all the architecture that is being done with that regards.
Also the US Military is putting together cargo container units for their uses, and so is FEMA, Red Cross, UN and many NGOs.
You know, thanks, this is a good topic for an article, and why I wanted to bring it to your attention and why I wrote it up! Please be thinking here.
