Wednesday, October 4, 2017

The History and Evolution of Container Shelters and Domes


From being simple freight holders and preservers, cargo containers have been found to have other valuable purposes. They can be modified to form temporary shelters and domes for industrial and mining sites. They are commonly used as storage rooms, laboratories and lodging areas for workers. Companies prefer them to concrete structures due to their compact design and high mobility.

Backtrack to the Origin

The shipping container, built to last and conceived merely for no-fuss, heavy-duty, utility transportation, has been around for a long time. As early as 1830, “simple, rectangular wooden boxes”, very similar to the containers that we know today, were used for carrying coal along the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The pure practicality of transferring just one (albeit large) item from one means of transportation to another (in this case from train to horse-drawn carts), rather than unloading and reloading, has streamlined shipping practices ever since. Read more from this article: http://bit.ly/2jeWl0L

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