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What comes to your mind when you think of a  shipping container ? Steel boxes with signs of dents, rust, and patches traveling on the truck, rail, or large vessels. That’s indeed true! That is what a shipping container looks like. But those dents, patches, and rust tell their entire story. No doubt those untidy looking boxes plays one of the vital roles in pacing lives of all. Just like success comes with struggle, the untidiness, breakage, damage of containers says what all they have gone through. They are the indisputable king of today’s fast-paced life. In ev e ry field they were taken, they proved their best and that is the reason they are called- ‘VERSATILE’. In this article, we will be talking about the versatilities of those long-living  intermodal containers . 1.Shipment/Transportation:  Call it shipping container,  cargo container , or storage units but they were solely invented to facilitate the shipment of goods in bulk over long distances. Moving back to ...

From living in caves, huts, clay houses, villas to skyscrapers buildings, man has traveled a long distance. But no one thought that after living by all such luxuries, man will move onto living in a metallic box- a box purposely made for the shipment of cargoes. Yes, a box that was designed 65 years ago to simplify the transportation of goods over long distances was never thought to be used for residential purposes anytime in the future. “But the human mind is all about invention and innovation.” There have been many other innovative ways to use modular shipping container s documented in the last 60 years and shipping container homes is one of those. Since shipping container homes have been around for years, there isn’t an exact date that is marked for its invention. It was 1987 when for the first time, a visionary man Philip C Clark filed for a US patent that was a method of ‘converting one or more  steel shipping containers  into a habitual building’. He was the first one...