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Things you must know Before you Buy Refrigerated Shipping Container | LOTUS Containers

A chunk of thoughts keeps hitting your mind when you approach container suppliers to buy shipping containers . If you’re involved in shipping operations, especially international shipping by any means, you ought to have detailed knowledge of each con t ainer type and functionality. Refrigerated Containers are invented for the storage and shipping of goods that cannot be kept safely in standard shipping containers.  Most people confuse them with insulated shipping containers , but they both are way different from one another. Let’s see in detail what they are and how they are different from others.  Reefer reminds of the line once said by Professor Plato, “Necessity is the mother of invention”. Although the discovery of shipping containers by Malcolm McLean has brought about the biggest transformation, shipping of perishable and temperature-sensitive products was still one of the major issues confronted by shippers and vendors dealing with such products. And this necessity gave...

Shipping Containers Homes becoming an affordable Housing Option | LOTUS Containers

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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...