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Shipping Containers and Halloween may seem to you an unlikely combination.   I certainly have to admit that it is not the first thing that springs to my mind!   However, Susan has been plotting all week to produce a Halloween picture for the 31st October.   I personally think it has something to do with her American family’s influence.

Halloween shipping container

I can’t really see us getting many requests for this as a shipping container conversion but you never know!!

For those of you familiar with the prefixes on containers that indicate the shipping line the container was manufactured for we did think of a pun especially for Halloween.   This container would have to have the POCU prefix - so we could really say Hocus pocus and make you groan!

Anyway, have a great weekend!

With it being the 1st October, thoughts are - scarily - going to turn towards Christmas.  Christmas cakes and Christmas puddings to be made and the first decorations appearing in the shops.  So, what on earth has all of this to do with shipping containers?

Operation Christmas Child is a scheme whereby individuals collect presents and necessities for a child overseas and put them in an old shoe box. The boxes can contain things like toothbrushes, combs, small toys, chocolate etc.  Then the filled shoe boxes are gathered together at various points throughout the UK at drop-off points in shops, churches, schools etc before they are forwarded  on to a central depot.  From there the boxes are often put into 20ft or 40ft steel containers and are shipped to their country of destination.

Last year, Operation Christmas Child sent 1.30 million shoe boxes to hospitals, orphanages, refugee camps, homeless shelters and impoverished neighborhoods.  Should you want more information please log on to www.operationchristmaschild.org.uk.