Container Mall Developers Hope to Regenerate Centre of Newcastle, UK

Could a shipping container mall revive the centre of Newcastle in England? Nearly every city in the world has a carbuncle of derelict land near their centres where antisocial behaviour reigns and the general population avoids. The hope is that by having bars, restaurants and boutique shops in a currently struggling part of the former shipbuilding city in the Northeast of England, so it may be possible to inject money and life into this sad and empty part. A stack of hope in Newcastle The site

Electric, Fully Autonomous Containership Barges to Ply European Waterways

New electric powered container carrying barges are being built to carry shipping containers around Europe’s inland waterways. Highways of ages The great rivers of Europe, including the Rhine, Seine and Danube, have been the major cargo highways of the continent for hundreds, possibly thousands of years. Despite the advantages of trucks and trains, they are still being used heavily by commerce in getting goods into and out of Europe from around the world. The largest container port is Rotterdam,

Shipping Container Farms in the Arctic?

A box of tricks that stops malnutrition, tackles food poverty and creates jobs. A top end shipping container indoor farm can sell cheaper and better produce to Inuit villages than food flown in from urban centers in Canada. The problem Inuit communities face Isolated Inuit communities in the far north of Canada have a problem: for much of the year they are in a snowy desert where temperatures can drop to minus 51 degrees C. Fruit and vegetables don’t grow in temperatures that cold. The answer

Smart Shipping Containers: Avoiding Damage, Loss and Theft

Could smart shipping containers be a way of guaranteeing your shipment gets to its destination? Did you know that cargo theft in the US costs shippers something like $30 billion a year? What about the fact that 10,000 shipping containers a year are lost over the side from ships at sea? Several million shipping containers – the vast majority of the 12 million that are used annually – will travel around the world from load, to unload safely and successfully. However there is always that nagging

Shakespeare Goes Punk: A Shipping Container Globe Theatre

There are plans to build a theatre in Detroit, in the US Midwest, modeled on Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, England. It will have many of the foibles and eccentricities of the original theatre that was built nearly 500 years ago in the slums of London, but be built of a far more modern and recognizable building block – shipping containers. Shipping container Globe – a modern reflection of the old The first Globe was built of wood and was dismantled to be moved across London Bridge to

Getting Away From the Crowds – A Shipping Container Ski Resort in the Caucasus Mountains

A new ski and yoga resort has opened in the Georgian Caucasus Mountains that is built entirely of shipping containers. Tourists from Europe, the US and Antipodes just don’t visit this place, so if you’re thinking of going to one of the most stunning yet unexplored places in the world, this could well be worth a trip. Where’s this, then? Georgia lies at the tectonic plates of the geopolitical rivalry between Russia and the West, in the region physically separating Europe and Asia. Being a much