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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 intermodal shipments to the ubiquitous corrugated boxes. In the context of international shipping trade, "container" or "shipping container" is virtually synonymous with "standard intermodal container" (a container designed to be moved from one mode of transport to another without unloading and reloading).

The general Storage Containers are great for storing personal effects, business documents, sporting equipment, tools, machinery and just about anything else. These Storage Containers are available as new, used or refurbished units.

For the storage of paint, thinners, oils, diesel, chemicals, class 3 flammables & any other potentially dangerous substance, Royal Wolf's dangerous goods Storage Containers offer the perfect solution.

The range of refrigerated containers offers cold storage for catering support at functions, additional cold storage for the busy season & temporary cold storage space during renovations.

When you need a storage container but have no land to store it, companies' self storage offers a great solution. They offer affordable self storage solutions where you can hire a storage container & store it at our branch.

An intermodal container (also container, freight container, ISO Container, shipping container, hi-cube container, box, conex box) is a standardized reusable steel box used for the safe, efficient and secure storage and movement of materials and products within a global containerized intermodal freight transport system. Lengths of containers, which each have a unique ISO 6346 reporting mark, vary from 8-foot (2.438 m) to 56-foot (17.07 m) and heights from 8-foot (2.438 m) to 9 feet 6 inches (2.9 m). There are approximately seventeen million intermodal containers in the world of varying types to suit different cargoes.  Aggregate ISO container capacity is often expressed in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU / teu) which is a unit of capacity equal to one standard 20 × 8 ft (6.10 × 2.44 m) (length × width) container. For air freight the alternative and lighter IATA-defined Unit Load Device is used. Non-container methods of transport include bulk cargo, break bulk cargo and tankers/oil tankers used for liquids.

A typical Shipping Containers has doors fitted at one end, and is constructed of corrugated weathering steel. Containers were originally 8 feet (2.44 m) wide by 8 feet (2.44 m) high, and either a nominal 20 feet (6.1 m) or 40 feet (12.19 m) long. They could be stacked up to seven units high. At each of the eight corners are castings with openings for twist lock fasteners.

Each container is allocated a standardized ISO 6346 reporting mark (ownership code), four characters long ending in U, J or Z, followed by six numbers and a check digit. The containers flex during transport.