inside of a shipping container with a van unloading into it

Ever wanted to know a little more about shipping containers ? Yes, there a great way of storing furniture and items for easy access while in self storage providing great value for money, but did you know, shipping containers as we know them today were created around the end of the 1940’s to aid transportation of goods around the world.

green shipping container for self storage in carlisle — Shipping containers have a huge range of uses

unloading goods into a shipping container — Look how easy this is to load and unload contents – be it household or trade use.

There was a time when cargo was manually loaded and unloaded at docks. Shipping containers changed all that enabling fast and rapid transportation of goods no matter where the destination is. Our furniture container storage units are well over engineered for the job; weighing in at approximately two tonne, and capable of holding thirty tonnes, and capable of withstanding the harshest weather conditions as these units were designed to be transported around the world on shipping container ships.

A shipping container is often referred to as an ISO container – ISO stands for “International Organization for Standardization” as they are built to a standard specification for international shipping. This makes them suitable for transportation via shipping, rail and truck. By standardising, it meant the time associated with transportation shrank as goods were no longer handled individually, but rather placed inside these industry standard shipping containers. Global shipping mushroomed in size. For shipping, generally 40 or 45 foot long units are used, but these are far too large for self storage use as you could store the contents of two entire three bed houses in one! Lets look at a more typical 20 foot unit:

How much does a 20 foot ISO container weigh?

The weight of a shipping container varies on its size – but roughly speaking, a 20 foot ISO container which is the most popular size we use, is approximately just under 2.1 tonne in weight.

So, when it comes to storing your removals household furniture in a shipping container, no matter how large your house, it’s an absolute doddle! Our shipping container units are sited on clean and easy to get to locations and can hold anything from the smallest of contents (our mini range), to an entire house full or removals furniture (or standard and jumbo range) starting at around £20 a week.

a 20 foot shipping container being lifted by crane

a shipping container in the air being sited — Containers are used globally for transportation purposes

a removals lorry at a shipping container self storage facility — Container units are a highly cost effective way of storing a wide range of contents

There are millions of shipping containers currently being used to transport goods and cargo around the globe, self storage is just one of the uses for them, however, if you want to learn more about them, we have a couple of Wikipedia links which makes interesting reading.

Shipping Container interesting Wikipedia facts can be found here:

Container Ships interesting Wikipedia read can be found here

We hope you have found this an interesting read. Should you require self storage, please navigate back to our home page for further information, or alternatively use our contact page to connect with us. We have helped thousands of families store their contents with us over the years and our extensive self storage facility is operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. We are even open for business on weekends.

Many people comment about how unique container storage facilities are – unique in the sense its great to drive directly to your storage unit without the need to use stairs, lifts or passage ways. See video below.

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removals van about to unload furniture into a shipping container

storage facility entrance gates — A typical Your Lock Your Key self storage site

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