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unusual facts about shipping container


Shipping Investments

A Shipping Investment is an investment of money into an asset related to worldwide shipping, usually containers, with the expectation of capital appreciation, dividends, and/or interest earnings.


Denel Dynamics Bateleur

It also makes it possible for the aircraft, once disassembled, to fit inside a 6 m ISO shipping container.

Ebba Mærsk

In the Daniel Suarez novel, Kill Decision, the Ebba Maersk is taken over by thousands of automated combat drones hidden in shipping containers.

Feeder ship

Feeders collect shipping containers from different ports and transport them to central container terminals where they are loaded to bigger vessels.

One of Us, One of Them

They train in an empty shipping container, and when Meredith asks why she wants to learn how to fight, Claire replies that she "wants to help people".


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Shipping container architecture

In 2006, Southern California Architect Peter DeMaria, designed the first two story shipping container home in the U.S. as an approved structural system under the strict guidelines of the nationally recognized Uniform Building Code (UBC).