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This video brings to you the 20 most fascinating and mind-blowing fun facts about shipping containers. 20 Mind-Blowing Shipping Container Secrets Will Shock You!

1. The first modern intermodal shipping container was developed by Malcom McLean in 1956, to replace the old style “break bulk” method of handling goods.
2. There are currently over 17 million shipping containers in the world, and five or six million of them are currently shipping around the world on vessels, trucks, and trains.
3. Every single shipping container has it’s own unique ID number – similar to your number plate on a car. This allows containers to be tracked anywhere in the world while they are being used.
4. All commercially used shipping containers have a serial number which made up of a 4 letter prefix (nearly always ending a U and a seven digit number [XXX-U-123456-1]. The first three letters signify the owner, the next letter is the category of the container (U = freight container), followed by a six digit serial number and finally a check digit. There is a mathematical formula that works out the check digit (final number) for every shipping container.
5. Around half of all containerized trade is in refrigerated reefer containers. This allows fresh goods to be shipped fresh even all around the world.
6. Approximately 97% of all shipping containers are manufactured in China. That’s due to the lower labor costs. Plus, it’s easier to produce the container close to where most of the world’s products are produced.
7. Since most containers are manufactured in china, Shanghai Port is the busiest container port in the world, processing 29 million containers annually.
8. Denmark’s A.P. Moller–Maersk Group, also known as Maersk, is the largest shipping company in the world. Maersk is the only shipping line that has a GPS equipped on its 270,000 reefer containers.
9. If all the containers by Mersk are lined up end to end, they’d stretch halfway around the planet. If stacked they’d be 7,500 times the height of the Eiffel Tower.
10. Only 2% of container ship crews are female. 98% of them are male, and around 33% of them are from the Philippines.
11. The biggest container ships in the world can carry around 15,000 – 18,000 standard shipping containers.
12. Its estimated 10,000 shipping containers are lost at sea each and every year due to rough seas and pirate activities. This translates to around 1 shipping container lost every hour, so remember to insure your container when shipping.
13. A 20-foot refrigerated container can float for up to 57 days while a 40-foot container will float more than three times as long.
14. One in 10 ship crew-members have access to the internet while they’re on the job and around two-thirds of ship crews in the world have no way to communicate with the rest of the world at any given time.
15. Shipping containers can last over 20 years! Provided they are taken care of with regular paint and maintenance.
16. Shipping containers were designed to carry cargo, over time, shipping containers have been used by architects and designers as building blocks for amazing recreational, commercial and residential projects.
17. The first official record of a shipping container home was filed by a man named Phillip Clark. On Monday 23rd November 1987, Clark filed a patent [US 3182424 A] called the “Method for converting one or more steel shipping containers into a habitable building”.
18. Freitag store in Zurich, Switzerland is the tallest shipping container building in the world. The 26 meter (85 foot) high structure consists of 17 white, yellow, orange, blue, red and green reclaimed shipping containers stacked on top of one another.
19. COMMON GROUND is South Korea’s first and the world’s largest container shopping mall complex built with 200 shipping containers. It redefines the conventions of retail platforms by reinterpreting the role of culture, and focusing on connecting people for the sake of creating meaningful value for all involved.
20. The world’s first fully modular stadium will be in Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup. The 40,000-seater Stadium would be mainly built of shipping containers to allow for disassembly and reconstruction after the tournament.
20 Mind-Blowing Shipping Container Secrets Will Shock You!

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