Archive for 'Shipping Container' Category
Container Yachts Builds Sailboats to Fit
2 April 2007Is there anything the shipping container can’t do? It can easily fill the shelves at WalMart but Container Yachts has built a business around the idea of building a sailboat that fits into a standard 40 foot container. Customers who purchase their Far Harbour 39 can ship it anywhere in the world. If they have [...]
Shipping Container Datacenters - Project Blackbox
9 November 2006Take one standard 20 foot shipping container, fill it with everything normally found in a state-of-the-art datacenter and what do you have? Project Blackbox, a Sun Microsystems project designed to create a complete portable datacenter, easily shipped anywhere and ready to go on arrival.
Project Blackbox packages compute, storage, and network infrastructure capabilities into scalable, modular [...]
Shipping Containers Tracked by Satellite
9 November 2006If you ever had to ask, “Where’s the beer?” you’ll be happy to know Heineken may have an answer. The Dutch beer company is trying out the use of satellite tracking to keep tabs on shipping containers of beer traveling from the Netherlands to the U.K. Not only will this allow them to know where [...]
Plastic Pallets for Exports
5 November 2006ISPM-15 regulations require heat treating or fumigation of wooden pallets to prevent infestation of wood eating insects spreading from one country to another during exporting. Many companies are now offering plastic pallets at a comparable price, also some pallets are made from recycled plastic. Here is an overview covering cost, composition, and the six processes [...]
Export Packing Requirements
24 August 2006Types of packages include cartons or fiberboard boxes, plastic containers, drums and tubing or styrofoam. If packaging in wood, please read the post on ISPM 15 requirements.
When packaging a product for export you need to keep in mind the four major factors: breakage, weight, mositure and pilferage. Also, how a product is packaged depends upon [...]
