Welcome to "conteneurs.org" partner Shipping this site aims to present the history and different types of container (container in English), these strange metal boxes that cross oceans and end their lives various ways.
Invention of the motor carrier for American Malcolm MACLEAN ease loading and unloading of trucks in 1956.
Only 10 years later that the container imposed itself in the maritime world.
The first standards were developed by the ASA ( ANSI ), U.S. Agency for Standardization and ISO standards for regulated size containers: ISO 668 and ISO 1496 .

In the cabin construction industry for SMEs, and especially the Public Works Construction, as a local home, office sites, changing rooms, showers or toilets.
In hut, shelter or garage, the container is the advantage of having a rigid structure for air transportation are mainly truck and Container Ship. Size and different design: standard, open top, refrigerated, flat rack or tank ... they adapt to all situations. Standard sizes are standardized by ISO of 20 feet, 30 feet and 40 feet which have been added mini containers of special size.

But how about let alone container ship carrying them shipping in quantity, AP Moller-Maersk Group, Mediterranean Shipping Company, CMA-CGM, P & O Nedlloyd, Evergreen, COSCO, China Shipping CL (CSCL), NYK Line, here is some of the main transport company.

The transport capacity of the vessels are in TEUs ( Equivalent Vingt Pieds ) or TEU (Twenty feet Equivalent Unit) in English. Among the largest vessel (see photo gallery) include the Christopher Columbus of the company CMA-CGM with a capacity of 13,000 TEUs.
Here are the matches EVP / Container:

• 1 20 'container = 1 TEU
• 1 container 10 '= 0.5 TEU
• 1 container 30 '= 1.5 TEU
• 1 40 'container = 2 TEU

In recent years the containers are recycled to provide a structure for housing, this idea come from Holland, which first was for artists to end workshops, then as student housing. The ease of stacking container and self-bearing structure to permit architects to develop the project by piling on several floors. Due to its construction Removable, these structures are classified as residential cantonment, dispensing request authorization to construct standard.