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I am often being asked to give details of size and weight of shipping containers, so I thought it would be useful to attach a table giving the details.

These are the most common sizes of used shipping containers although there are, other more specialist containers such as flat racks etc that might be of interest to some of you and which we will feature on another occasion.

Shipping Containers provided the answer to much needed storage for PE kit for High View Primary Learning Centre in Barnsley.

20ft shipping container conversion

The school needed a storage container nearer to the school playing fields so that equipment was easily accessed.   In order to make sure that the children had no problems opening the doors, a personnel door was put in th centre of one of the sides and the double container doors sealed off for added security.   Inside the container was shelved so that there was plenty of storage space.

shipping container conversion close up

CS Shipping Containers is particularly keen to work with schools and can arrange for delivery before the school day starts if this makes it easier.  Do feel that if you have any specific requirements for your shipping container conversion that you can talk it through with us so that you can get exactly what you need.

“I’d recommend CS Shipping Containers to any school without hesitation.  All the staff, from sales through to delivery, provided a first rate service and ensured that the container met our exact specifications.”

Tim Marsh, Business Manager, High View Primary Learning Centre

We have been getting a lot of enquiries recently from schools asking about shipping containers for secure storage. Storage needs range from keeping bicycles safe, additional on-site storage for sports equipment to archiving school records. The requirements range from an 8ft container to a 40ft one.

What has been most marked recently though is the number of schools asking about shipping container conversions to provide classrooms either permanently or whilst a major redevelopment project is being undertaken. Obviously, whilst standard considerations apply to this sort of conversion such as insulation, windows, personnel doors, heating and lighting, special consideration has to be taken into account as the containers are going to be used by children. This affects lighting for example which has to be of a higher tamper proof variety than that installed in, say, a standard office conversion. Anti slip flooring is also important.

CS Shipping Containers also tries to arrange deliveries of either storage containers or the classroom shipping container conversion to fit in with the school time table. Often we deliver first thing in the morning before school starts in order to create as little inconvenience and to reduce any safety risks that may be incurred when children are around.

Constructing the Community Kitchen

 

Community Centre in Buwanyanga

CS Shipping Containers is proud to be supplying a shipping container to Sussex Downs College as part of their long term project in Uganda.

Over  the past four years Sussex Downs College has sent out over 100 student volunteers to Buwanyanga village, Sironko district, Uganda, to assist the local community build up their educational, health and sanitation capacity.  The work has involved building a library resource centre, community kitchen and toilet blocks, grain stores, sustainable stoves and in 2008 a health education and nutrition centre.  Many of the facilities provided are the only ones in a district of some 2,000 villages and 330,000 inhabitants.

This month CS Shipping Containers supplied a a 20ft shipping container to the college.   This will allow them to dispatch educational resources including computers and vocational and sports equipment to Buwanyanga village.   The much needed goods will reach the village in June.  Once the container has been emptied the college students plan to use it to create a shipping container conversion so it can be used as a further community building.

All this takes money and the college is always seeking ways to raise funds to continue with this work.   Further details available from Ian Elgie, Uganda project coordinator on: email hidden; JavaScript is required   Please contact him if you think you can help.

CS Shipping Containers are absolutely delighted that the Aces Basketball Team based at Stoke Mandeville have asked them for a bespoke shipping container to house their specially adapted wheelchairs when not in use.

The team have chosen a 20ft container to have an extra wide door with a ramp to make accessibility for the wheelchairs as easy as possible. The specially angled wheels are slanted for stability, manouevrability and speed so that the games are fast and furious.

Their coach, who has been out to Beijing this year, is hopeful that some of the members of the Aces will be able to take part in the London Olympics 2012!

We can’t wait to take another photograph when the shipping container store is in use in about a month’s time - and hopefully stay and watch the Aces in a match so we can cheer them on!!

Yesterday we talked about shipping containers being used to provide accommodation for the Olympics – and by this I mean housing for either the athletes or the influx of tourists that 2012 is bound to bring.

I have been asked just how shipping containers could provide an answer when they are effectively just boxes!?

The fact that the containers themselves are made for industrial use means that they are extremely strong structurally and are in building block size being typically 20ft or 40ft long, 8ft wide and 8ft 6inches high.

If you imagine them as rather like a child’s building set then you can start to see them either joined to one another to create a series of rooms or stacked on top of each other to create lofts and multi storied buildings.

Put these within a rigid framework like the Travelodge in Uxbridge and you have an extremely flexible system that, with the addition of electricity, plumbing and heating mean that all of our modern day needs can be catered for.

If the industrial look of shipping containers does not appeal, then they can be clad in a huge variety of materials ranging from wood to render to suit the location of the elements.  Add windows, doors and maybe even balconies and the shipping containers are totally transformed.

There are examples of completed projects throughout the world.  From Container City in London – right in the centre of London’s Docklands which might be of special interest to our Olympic organizers – to housing projects in Australia.

Given the speed with which they can be set up, the relatively low impact on the surrounding environment – not to mention the green credentials of re-using an industrial product, there is a lot going for shipping containers that have been converted for use as accommodation.

CS Shipping Containers are proud to have supplied Med Aid with a shipping container to transport medical equipment to Africa.

Med-Aid is a UK based charity that provides hospitals in the developing world with good quality, useful equipment no longer needed by hospitals in Europe.  The truth is that each year hospitals in the UK dispose of surgical equipment that has been superseded by the latest technology but compared to what is available in Africa it is often far superior.

Med Aid uses shipping containers to send this equipment out to Africa.  They check that it is working and that the doctors and nurses require it. In this way for the cost of transportation, items that would become landfill waste goes to save lives.

If you think you might be able to help, or know of someone who might, then please contact them.  They always need financial contributions towards the cost of shipping the equipment. For more information email Tim Beacon email hidden; JavaScript is required or visit their website at www.medaid.co.uk.

Today we would like to ask for your help in selecting our new logo for CS Shipping Containers.  The designs are meant to represent shipping containers and the sea.

LOGO ONE

This first logo is meant to represent a line of boxes in sea colours.  It is Susan’s favorite.

LOGO TWO

This second logo, designed by Simon represents a stack of cargo containers and has a very modern font to represent how shipping containers fit into modern society.

LOGO THREE

This final logo is my favorite.  It represents shipping containers in sea colours wrapping round CSSC as a wave.

Anyway, let us know what you think as we would be really interested to hear from you.

CS Shipping Containers have been asked to make a shipping container conversion which will provide a workshop and tool store for the RSPB at The Lodge reserve in Sandy.
The 30ft shipping container will help the RSPB by providing a much needed extra facility on their site and proves just how versatile shipping containers can be.

The Reserve Management Team are “really excited to be getting a purpose made workshop at last”. The container conversion will allow the RSPB to maintain chainsaws and brushcutters, mend nest boxes, assemble gates and signs, and store the tools they use to look after 200ha of woodland and heath on the reserve.

If you would like to help them meet their costs, please send a donation made out to RSPB to:
RSPB The Lodge Nature Reserve
The Gatehouse
Potton Road
Sandy,
Beds SG19 2DL

Shipping containers were used as platforms for a spectacular firework display to mark Liverpool’s transition from European Capital of Culture 2008 to a European Culture Capital.

Shipping Containers at Liverpool Firework Display

The firework display, held on 10th January 2009, was produced by Walk the Plank who hired the specialist containers in the form of 20ft collapsible flat racks from CS Shipping Containers. Everything had to be delivered within a very tight schedule to Liverpool Docks. Here the flat racks were converted into platforms from which the fireworks were mounted before being lifted on to boats straddling the Mersey and set off to much excitement.

Fireworks on shipping container flat racks

The display was watched by over 35,000 people who had no idea of the logistics behind the spectacular display.

Flat racks are generally used for transporting awkward shaped loads that will not fit inside the 8ft width of a ordinary shipping container. Examples of loads the containers would be used for would be heavy machinery, boats etc. On collapsible flat racks the two ends of the rack fold flat into the middle making it easier to transport multiples on one lorry when the shipping containers are not in use.

20ft collapsible end flat rack

Shipping Containers as part of such a spectacular firework display? It is amazing what uses shipping containers can be put to!