In the next couple of years, the British forces have $4 Billiion of equipment deployed and – as you can imagine – managing the repatriation of that equipment will be a very significant logistical challenge.? In all military withdrawals a lot of equipment is left behind but the challenge is to minimize this.? In modern military campaigns the shipping container plays a significant part.?Camp Bastion is the size of Reading and the number of shipping containers stuffed with stores and used as accommodation at that location and throughout Afghanistan will be mind boggling – lets guess – 10,000(?) for the UK forces alone.? Many will be left in situ and will not only be a monument and legacy of the campaign but will also prove extremely useful to the local population.? Many will return to the UK and be ?demobbed? and find their way back into the used container market.? The military deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan impacted on the availability of shipping turning into storage containers in the UK and when they return there will also be an impact.

Shipping container in modern shipping and transportation began with their use for deploying equipment for the Viet Nam war in the 1960?s of what became a global revolution in freight transportation.

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Time was that trading in storage containers was straight forward.? Like many, we came into the business from the freight industry, knowing our way around containers and where we could buy the from when the shipping lines were finished with them.? It was all nice and straight forward.? Shipping lines bought lots of containers every year to use for cargo and they depreciated them every year until they had a low book value then when they arrived somewhere where there was a demand – they sold them.? There was a small market for secure site storage.? Then of course, people started making things with them, like anti-vandal cabins and later on self-storage using shipping containers came along.? In the meantime, the quality of containers increased dramatically and the storage and site services users demanded higher quality and there were some manufacturers that were only too happy to oblige and manufactured containers. The upshot is that there is a real mix of containers in the storage and site services market and those in the container resale business have to keep a sharp eye on how things are changing.

We now buy containers from shipping lines and?manufacturers as well as buying them back from customers and also buying from auction sites.?Types of containers have changed and expanded too.? As well as the 20ft, we can get up to the 48ft., reefers, half-heights, open tops, refrigerated, flatracks and others.

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We aim to provide our customers with a personal, fast and efficient service, which will offer a hassle free solution to any storage problem. More importantly, there are no hidden costs when purchasing? or leasing storage containers from us.?For additional information regarding our storage containers for rental or sales, call?AZ Containers at 602-723-9608.

Sports Clubs just love using Storage Containers.

Supplying storage containers to sports clubs and school, college and university sports departments across the country is something is done regularly. We can? supplied football, rugby, cricket, archery, canoe, sailing, golf, tennis, rowing, athletics, running, hockey,?bowls, gymnastics and?trampolining clubs among others and even Homing pigeon and allotment societies.

AZ Container’s hasn’t supplied a snooker club but we have stored snooker tables.?We can supply you with containers to store your athletic equipment for junior athletics, throws, jumps and strength and conditioning as well as hurdles and sprint equipment for runners.? The containers would be able to offer the range of storing for all your activities it does without having the space to store the equipment so now senior and junior athletes alike can benefit from a better range of equipment for?training and competition and allows coaches to deliver higher added value sessions.? We feel sure you’ll soon be back for another.

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AZ Containers can be found on-site at several Arizona construction sites. Our secure storage containers offer wind and water tight storage for your tools, materials and the home owners valuables. If your projects need extra storage space or temporary storage during construction a storage container from AZ Container is the perfect solution. Rent a Storage Container for temporary storage on your construction site, or purchase a storage container today for use as a permanent storage solution for your business.

Some of the uses to keep in mind are:

▪? Secure On-Site Storage
▪? Temporary or Permanent
▪? Weatherproof Storage
▪? Equipment Storage
▪? On-Site Workspace
▪? Materials Storage
▪? Tool Storage
▪? Homeowners Goods
▪? Renovations

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Make Room

▪?? ?Reclaim a room, your garage, or your basement. Put all your extras in an AZ Container storage unit. Perfect for holiday decorations or seasonal materials that are only used in the spring, summer, fall or winter.

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▪?? ?Protect your belongings from dirt, debris and workers tools by storing them in an AZ Container during construction. With AZ Container your home can still be livable even during lengthy home improvement projects.

?? ?De- cluttering and Home staging?

▪?? ?Getting ready to sell your home? AZ Containers are the perfect way to allow people to see your home without all the clutter! Allowing your home to show better and sell faster.

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Construction work can be characterized by two qualities: hefty and temporary. Avoid worrying about the safety of your equipment and buy or rent a storage containers. A conex container will keep your equipment organized, accessible, and most of all, secure. Also, consider an office container for your construction site for a mobile, air-conditioned spot to take care of business.

Here?s why shipping containers make the perfect storage solution for construction sites.

STRENGTH OVER TIME

Construction projects can last days, weeks, months, or years?time spans that vary job-to-job. This means you?ll need a structure ready for the challenges presented by long-term outdoor exposure.

With the heavy nature of construction tools and equipment, and you?ve got a match made in heaven with shipping containers. Their original purpose was to transport goods across the ocean via freight ship, so these boxes have proven resilience. Durability is not just beneficial; it?s necessary, and shipping containers are the best structures out there for the job.

UNBEATABLE MOBILITY

The temporal nature of construction work also demands easy movability. Especially with construction projects, it?s much more convenient to relocate equipment when its provisional home has the ability to come along. Despite their large size, shipping containers can still be moved by truck, giving them the ability to mover anywhere that you do or your project does. And as long as the container is cargo-worthy. Combined with great sturdiness that makes your container suitable for a variety of weather conditions, mobility means that this storage solution will stay standing wherever you go.

EASY ACCESSIBILITY

The ability to keep your equipment directly on-site where you need to access it makes getting your items a breeze, and our modifications can make things even easier. Every container comes with two convenient cargo doors on one side, and can also be modified with an extra set, as well as walk-through doors, roll-up doors, or sliding doors to increase expediency of access. Within the container, you can apply some of our to further organize and improve access. For example, our stable shelving systems make items visible when you walk in, making them easy to grab. See our modification section on our web site: https://azcontainers.com/modifications

THE IDEAL STORAGE SOLUTION

It?s difficult to find a way to store heavy equipment in a way that keeps it safe with the ability to move, but buying or leasing a shipping container is a way to avoid building something more permanent but guaranteeing the kind of safety that a traditional building would allow for. Our portable storage containers are built to keep equipment away from not only weather, but also thieves and vandals. And since this structure can also be moved from place-to-place when your team does, you really can?t lose.

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Based on three primary themes: Healthy, Simple, Efficient.

This Architect wants the design to inspire residents to live without toxic materials, consume less overall, and use resources wisely. This compact urban home design would allow the home to be inserted into small, otherwise-wasted lots while still providing a decent amount of living space for residents. The staggered design of the two containers allows for increased upper-floor area as well as an interesting visual effect. The product would do equally well on its own or in a larger community full of similar units.

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Two San Francisco art and travel addicts overhauled a loft?and customized a pair of shipping containers?to accommodate their collection and reflect their passions.

When the San Francisco couple says they love to travel, they don?t mean trips to Napa. Over the past three summers Wardell put 15,500 miles on a motorcycle he and Sagan keep in Milan on rides from the Arctic Circle to southwestern Portugal. When Wardell began collecting street art in the mid-1990s, he admits, “it quickly became an obsession.” When he began dating Sagan several years ago, “we got serious about buying big.” Starting with local graffiti artist Barry McGee, they bought ever-more ambitious installations by stars like Shepard Fairey, JR, and Os Gemeos?until they needed a bigger home to accommodate their approximately 120-piece collection.

In February of 2007 they purchased a 3,200-square- foot former Chinese laundry and tooth-powder factory with column-free interiors and a zigzagging sawtooth roof in lower Pacific Heights. As a former VP of real estate for Williams-Sonoma, “Claudia knew right away it had excellent bones,” says Wardell, a former financial advisor. The travelers also loved how the 127-foot-long loft seemed to stretch out to the horizon. “I walked up those front stairs, and I felt like I was at the edge of a highway, like I could keep going forever,” Sagan says. “I loved that feeling.”

Where some might box the cavernous space into cozier rooms, Wardell and Sagan wanted “to cele- brate that length,” Sagan says. The apartment lies on a north?south axis with large windows at either end. To showcase the art and maximize daylight, they decided to situate the master bedroom at the back, away from the street, but keep everything else open, with a central kitchen and living room and a den facing the street. They hired a local company to sandblast the interior to expose the board-formed concrete walls and replaced the carpeted floors with Georgia hickory pecan planks? the longest, knottiest boards they could find?to further lengthen the loft and make it look more like a warehouse. The next question was, “how do we make a home office and a guest bedroom happen without cluttering the space?” Sagan says.

For the guest room, “we wanted something our friends would tell everyone they knew about, but not so comfortable they would never leave,” Wardell explains. He wanted it to be a self-contained space with a Murphy bed, an element he remembered fondly from a train ride he took across Europe in his 20s. After considering plunking the interior compartment of a Pullman train car in the middle of the apartment, they landed on shipping containers.

“I contacted Hapag-Lloyd looking for an orange one in newer condition,” Wardell says. “But they?re German. They have rules. They wouldn?t sell us one, but they put out a call that these nuts in San Francisco wanted containers for their house. In late 2007, we got word that the Port of Oakland had some used ones.” Sagan examined several before choosing. “A ton are just a mess,” she says. “You?ll see a huge dent in the side and go, Wow, a wave did that? It?s important to smell them, too, because they pick up odors from their cargo.”

In 2008, while a container reseller prepped the containers (replacing the original pesticide-treated floors, repainting the walls, cutting out holes for windows and plumbing), a structural engineer and builder reinforced the loft?s floor with wooden joists to accommodate the nine-ton load. The containers arrived by flatbed truck one morning in late July; by midday, a crane had lowered them in through an opening in the roof, cantilevering the blue one, Wardell?s future home office, atop the orange one, the guest room.

For the container interiors, “the mood we wanted was raw,” Wardell says. There was only one caveat: The guest room “had to pass the Dottie test,” Sagan says. Her mother would be their first visitor that Christmas. “She was mortified by the idea of sleeping in a container,” Sagan says. “She said it sounded like a coffin.”

To customize the apartment and containers, Wardell brought in Pat Carson, a furniture designer and builder who shares the couple?s love for travel and industrial design. When asked why his pieces have so many rivets, Carson grins, “I?m that guy on the airplane by the window, staring at the wings.” Over six months Carson designed and constructed 75 custom fixtures for the apartment, many with a kinetic, gadget-like charm. “A lot of the creative ideas I?ve had in the past 20 years are manifested in this house,” Wardell says.

The carbon fiber dining table, for example, opens on a hinge to form a V, an L or a straight line, with ball casters embedded in the legs so it can glide easily. Woven-leather bar stools swivel between the table and the kitchen island. Surrounded by exposed copper piping, the guest bathroom?s teak-and-steel sink evokes the utilitarian atmosphere of a train car or ship cabin; in the master bathroom, tilt-out shelves in the shower hide shampoos. Just about the only convertible fixture Carson didn?t build in its entirety is the liquid crystal “privacy wall” in the guest bath, which changes from clear to opaque at the flick of a switch.

Shortly before Dottie arrived, Carson installed the custom Murphy bed, which is clad in aluminum with dozens of rivets and rolls up on a pulley made from a mill wheel. The unconventional guest room passed with flying colors. “She was pleasantly surprised at how spacious and comfortable it was,” Sagan says. It?s been a hit with subsequent guests as well. “We?ve found the container self-selects,” Wardell says. “Our friends who are the most fun choose to stay here.”

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On a tree-lined street in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, a former carriage house from the 1930s is now a colorful modern home that boasts bright orange shipping containers.

Commissioned by an artist, a gallerist, and their daughter, LOT-EK was tasked with renovating and expanding their existing two-story home. The new design rotates around an extension made out of stacked shipping containers, and features vibrant colors and a centralized-floor plan. As a result, the architecture is now organized around a polychromatic core volume that extends from the ground floor to the roof terrace.

The redesign includes a bright orange penthouse, which was retrofitted out of four stacked shipping containers. This part of the house dictates the flow between each space and provides access to an external rooftop terrace. The same color continues throughout?intersecting, connecting, and organizing various internal sections.

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This duplex creatively reuses shipping containers as home additions that can serve as guest bedrooms, offices, or art studios. “The intent was to give the homeowner a place where they felt inspired to live and work,” says Rios. With one unit already sold, Unit B, which mirrors the same floor plan with more feminine finishes, is being offered for $499,000.

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In her discussions with Reynolds, Rios requested that the architecture of the building reflect the shipping containers in the backyard. The modular appearance of the duplex, clad in white Hardie plank siding, mimics the look of a two-story container home. With large windows and 11-foot-tall ceilings, the two-bedroom, three-bath residence feels more spacious than its 1,484 square feet. On the ground floor, the living, dining, and kitchen areas flow into one another; potential guests in the shipping container also have easy access to a full bath of their own. A steel-and-wood floating staircase leads to the second floor, which holds two bedrooms with patio access.

“This home brings a downtown high-rise feel with your own private work space and is literally steps away from one of the most popular neighborhoods in Austin,” says Rios. “The east side is vibrant, funky, and very open to new concepts. There is no other place I would have rather built my first home including the shipping containers.”

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