Why? Not enough containers to contain things? How temporary is this?
“Why? Not enough containers to contain things? How temporary is this?”
For a variety of reasons of every ten containers that arrive in American ports, only four to six are shipped out again. The remainder are causing a huge storage and handling problem. The containers can’t be shipped back empty because the ports don’t have the handling capacity to unload full containers and reload empty containers. The containers, which cost only a few thousand dollars, are essentially, disposable. Except, they are bulky and difficult to move without the right equipment. The equipment that does move them is fully used on full containers. There is no money in moving, handling, storing or reusing old containers. Hence all those articles on using old containers for housing. Again, the problem is moving them.