Simple containers made from gourds being sold for use as calabash in Kenya. Display of a woven basket from the Maya peoples of Mexico. A corrugated fiberboard box. A spine car with a 6 …

40 foot container A shipping container is a container with strength suitable to withstand shipment, storage, and handling. Shipping containers range from large reusable steel boxes used for …

A 40-foot-long (12.2 m) shipping container. Each of its eight corners has an essential corner casting for hoisting, stacking, and securing Containers stacked on a large ship. An intermodal …

The U.S. Post Office contracted with the New York Central Railroad to move mail via containers in May 1921. In 1930, the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad began shipping containers between …

Shipping container architecture is a form of architecture that uses steel intermodal containers (shipping containers) as the main structural element. It is also referred to as cargotecture or …

A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. Container ships …

Universal tank container A tank container or tanktainer is an intermodal container for the transport of liquids, gases and powders as bulk cargo. It is built to the ISO standards, making it suitable …

A typical 200-litre (55 US or 44 imp gal) tight head drum Low level nuclear waste in open head steel drums. A drum (also called a barrel) is a cylindrical shipping container used for shipping …

A mix of modern standard containers and old Conex boxes used for training purposes, Fort Carson, 2013 The CONEX box, a portmanteau of "Container, express", is a type of cargo …

These systems also allow for remote control, enabling an operator to change the temperature settings or turn the refrigeration unit on or off from a central software platform. [6][7]