20ft Shipping Containers
June 24th, 2009 | 
Author: Recently there has been a change in the world of shipping containers. The scarcity of 20ft second hand containers has meant that we are beginnng to see the price of 20ft containers being the same as, or sometimes more than, 40ft containers. This will come as a surprise to many who think that the price of containers goes up the larger they are!
20ft used shipping container
The reason for this is simple. Market demand. 20fts are a more popular size with the second hand shipping container user as it is easier to fit in to a variety of locations than the 40ft. But why has this never been a problem before? After all, 20fts have always been more popular?
The economic recession has really hit the shipping industry. As a result the shipping lines are holding on to their shipping containers rather than replacing them with new ones. Less shipping containers are therefore being released onto the second hand market and, as a result, once the 20ft size is sold there are no more coming up to replace them.
Shipping containers will always provide versatile, secure storage - whatever their size. Perhaps though, if you are looking to buy a 20ft second hand container, buying one sooner rather than later maybe a good idea before the numbers available drop even further.
Posted in Shipping Container Articles, Shipping Container News | 
Tags: 20ft, 20ft container, 20ft containers, 20ft shipping container, 20ft shipping containers, 40ft, 40ft container, 40ft containers, Container, Containers, second hand container, second hand containers, secure storage, Shipping, Shipping Container, Shipping Containers, Storage, used shipping container