Globalization death watch

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/6/2/83853/49947 (((This may make some sense from some kind of rust-belt labor-union perspective. Cheap shipping containers are suddenly *expensive* shipping containers. Airlines are walking ... ships, which together consume about 70 percent of the gasoline used in the United States. While [more...]

Date: 2008-08-04 21:39:23

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Crate Expectations: 12 Shipping Container Housing Ideas

nortran container warehouse photo Judging by the three most popular posts in TreeHugger, it seems that much of our readership wants to green their sex life in front of a pellet stove in a shipping container house. And why not? Shipping containers are cheap, plentiful and strong. I grew [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 19:27:37

Shipping Containers Make Excellent Affordable Housing

2009.10.poorman.jpg Continuing with our never-ending shipping container coverage: Recently featured on "Colbert Report," ... parks or courtyards. · Shipping Container Architecture Getting Better-Looking Curbed LA · Shipping Container Hotel Opens Across the Pond Curbed LA [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 21:47:46

shipping containers as houses

I recently ran across a thread about someone wanting to grow in a standard shipping container, ... you can get a 40' footer for as cheap as a $G a piece, and make some pretty sweet homes, or vacation ... about shipping container homes. Heres a little science station in the jungle shipping container home [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 04:35:31

Jamie Leigh Jones Got a tip for a post?: Email us | Anonymous form Get PEEK in your mailbox! KBR/Haliburton Worker Raped, Locked in Shipping Container Posted by Cara ... of a shipping container for days in order to prevent her from reporting the attack. The Justice [more...]

Date: 2008-08-09 00:05:09

At home in a shipping container

At home in a shipping container You’ve probably seen hundreds of them on the back of a train or at a boat yard, but what if someone told you that an old shipping container could someday become your dream house? - Caitlin [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 23:55:26

14 Reasons: Why Ship Owners Prefer Filipino Seafarers and How They Exploit Them

On October 28, the chairman of International Mariners Management Association of Japan (IMMAJ) ... - from luxury cruise ships to giant tankers and container ships. Why most of the shipping companies prefer ... Hellespont, an European shipping company having a manpower agency in Manila, has been hiring all-Filipino [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 17:50:40

BBC launches "The Box"; Heisenberg uncertainty principle now trackable by GPS!

Well, we're really talking about the Observer effect, but still, you gotta wonder about this one. On Monday, BBC News (love them) launched a new initiative called "The Box" unleashing a logotized BBC shipping container ... trade and globalisation by tracking a standard shipping container around the world. It is a project [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 16:05:05

Following The Box

Today we're starting a major editorial project which I am very excited about, and I hope many of you will be too ... and have helped hugely with the logistics and planning along with shipping company NYK. The container ... up with was the idea of following a shipping container around the world for a year, as it criss-crosses [more...]

Date: 2008-09-08 08:24:59

Afternoon Links

Today in the links some kid catches a ball in the face, a phenomenal Redskins tailgate fail, Holly Madison goes “Bowling for Boobies” and a hotel made entirely out of shipping containers ... , damn it to hell, he knew…. (Sports) Hotel Made From Shipping Containers (Pics) Firerod.com: Rich [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 20:00:31

Early Look At That Beverly Grove Prefab Project

The rendering fairy flew in our window last night, lugging along a very pretty image of what would be--well, ... uses steel, while architect Peter DeMaria loves those shipping containers.) If this is wood, let's ... is Work/Plays, who declined to comment on the project. · Keep Your Shipping Containers. We're Going [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 21:08:54

Drought land ‘will be abandoned’.

Gulf petrodollars help UK go green. The fight against climate change will get an unexpected boost today from oil-rich Gulf states which will pledge ... of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for adopting strong new emissions standards to limit ... will apply to ocean-going ships such as container ships and tankers that operate around the [more...]

Date: 2008-11-09 12:02:02

Shipping Container Architecture

While I love what Shigeru Ban did with them, I’ve been a bit cynical about all the structures made up of shipping containers lately. It’s been a real yawn. Perhaps because I associate it with the container full of dead girls on Season II of The Wire. I don’t know. But this photo I saw in Apartment Therapy is changing my mind [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 21:56:41

Week In Review: Sierra Bonita Apts, Prop 8 Protests, 4900 Hollywood, El Dorado Unveiled, Mixed Use Shipping Containers, Los Feliz Pocket Park

Click the image above to view the full photogallery ... strikes again! After shipping container schools, homes and hotels, we finally have a mixed-use shipping container project, that will include a small retail component on the ground floor. We hope [more...]

Date: 2008-11-08 17:01:32

Shipping Containers Go Mixed-Use in Venice

Click the image above to view the full photogallery. There have been shipping container schools, homes, and hotels, but check out these shots of a mixed-use shipping container project in Venice. The latest from architect Peter DeMaria [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 19:21:54

Californigreenication

With Al Gore as the keynote speaker, West Coast Green is ready to go big in its third year ... out of recycled shipping containers smack dab in the middle of the showroom floor. Built by the Lawrence Group ...  the tranformation from shipping containers to showhome here.  Exhibit B: The convention itself is trying [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 20:08:12

Hillbilly Ambassador to the UK.

Thank you all, in comments and email, for the kind wishes and for sharing my excitement ... ’s company will pay to ship one large shipping container not exceeding 3,000 pounds. Approximately ... and stories I always have. It’ll help me be less homesick. By the way, I really can’t express how great [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 16:33:01

Curbed Reader Comment Round-Up

The best posts usually originate in our comments. To give appreciation to our amazing (and sometimes angry) ... _curbedla.jpg 1) LA's First Shipping Container Home Hits Market: "Container projects are eco friendly ... , so there will be plenty to access w/o the vehicle. Also, the WeHo landmark of Shorty's Barber Shop is in between [more...]

Date: 2008-05-31 00:20:36

High Oil Prices Eroding Asian Manufacturing Advantage

In addition to having a direct impact on inflation, current high oil prices have profound implications for world trade patterns, according to CIBC World Markets. The cost of shipping a standard 40-foot container from East Asia ... that container is chock full of diamonds, its shipping costs have suddenly inflated the cost of whatever [more...]

Date: 2008-05-28 16:40:46

Like it or not - Shipping Container Homes are coming to a lot near you!

My family is building a home using shipping containers as structure. When I started this project, I thought I’d just throw up a picture from time to time, interspersed with whatever rant I was currently on, to demonstrate “what a nut-case that idiot “Ronin” is [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 16:58:23

Internet "cloud" arrives in entire shipping containers

(((Some "cloud" that is. Maybe they were talking about the clouds of exhaust from the power plants.))) (((This Piranesian vision of entire shipping containers full of servers, stacked up like iron Lego ... News - CNET News - CNET News.com. Once upon a time, Microsoft used to fill its data centers [more...]

Date: 2008-08-20 17:44:52

US Army Works to Cut its Carbon “Bootprint”… ba da bum!

In what is just another example in a long stream of such, ... set up within Fort Bragg for training purposes has been made up of shipping containers, reducing the cost from $400,000 to $25,000, and keeping the shipping containers out of the solid waste stream [more...]

Date: 2008-07-29 16:39:40

Isotopia: New Radiation Scanner Might Keep Longshoremen Happy

A Finnish company has developed a cargo-scanning solution that accurately detects radiation in shipping containers without ... containers full of Ikea furniture and knockoff handbags. As a result, Congress passed the Security [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 23:14:41

Container-City: An Eco-Friendly Alternative

Container- City in London- a concept which bets on recycling former containers ... unused containers into housing. Cheap and easy The process is simple- shipping containers ... are enough to build a module made of three containers! This kind of cheap construction also provides [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 15:40:50

The Box!

This is such a great idea. I can't wait to read more about it. Hopefully, this will educate millions of people about the virtue of free trade ... to tell the story of international trade and globalisation by tracking a standard shipping container ... . We have painted and branded a BBC container and bolted on a GPS transmitter so you can follow its [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 18:50:52

Have Apple received a shipment of 3G iPhones?

That is the big question; did Apple just take a shipment of their 3G iPhones? ... has just taken receivership of 188 container-ship containers in an undisclosed North American port. Now the thing is, while it is quite plausible that this new shipment could well be Apple’s continued supply [more...]

Date: 2008-05-25 09:54:57

Travel by container ship

Another story of traveling by cargo ship. The stevedores, or as we call them in the states, longshoremen, ... " -- 'steersman' in Greek. So the arrangement of cargo and the logistics of operations are already optimized by software, the next step will be to link that software directly to the hardware of cranes [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 14:40:06

Want to Reduce Greenhouse Gasses by 12 Million Tons A Year? Ship by Rail, Not by Truck, On The Lindberg Report

“Railroads are the most environmentally friendly and energy efficient way to move goods on land ... who want to stack shipping containers in order to carry more freight. Such is the dilemma of mid ... , ships with more than double the capacity of freight containers will be able to make the transition [more...]

Date: 2008-05-22 06:36:48

Bluehost : How to integrate DHL Shipping Method in a ecommerce website ?

Bluehost is among our best web hosts. Sign up with bluehost here This is a bluehost question posted by phongqn2000 on 24 October 2008 I’m ... Similar Posts:Bluehost : multiple pages point to different site? Web Hosting : Get a shipping rate from UPS and Fedex Web Hosting : UPS shipping calculator 10 (More) Sweet Shipping Container Homes [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 08:11:42

Milk Crate Chandelier: Street Style Lighting

Milk crates are one object we don’t have to worry about showing up in a landfill anytime soon ... a uniform size, and can be used as a building block of a structure or as storage containers. Milk ... is one of many ingenious uses of the humble shipping container. Check out Milkcrate Digest [more...]

Date: 2008-07-30 19:07:39

Sorry Tom, It's not that flat!

By Ron Beasley In 2005 the pompous and erudite Thomas Friedman told us the world is flat ... that this is perhaps changing because of the cost of fuel. The cost of shipping a 40 foot container ... will once again make it rounder.” The new tariff Shipping costs to and from Asia have risen so much [more...]

Date: 2008-06-04 02:51:29

In Country With Our Warriors

A stack of captured AK- 47s and other enemy weapons that were turned in to Taji National Supply Depot Operation Sabre Pursuit in Diyala ... program. “We have counted more than 12,000 so far out of two warehouses and 45 shipping containers.” ... demilitarized so they cannot be used by insurgents in the future. “We estimate we have about [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 11:02:15

Morning Cup of Links: How to Become a Filmmaker

Everything you need to know about film can be learned in ten minutes. Director Robert Rodriguez gives students tips on becoming a filmmaker ... your distraction is my business. * 10 Innovative Shipping Container Homes and Offices. Living in a box just became chic. * Vehicle crash tests are necessary for the development of safety innovations [more...]

Date: 2008-05-27 07:34:08

When rape is just another workplace dispute

Rape is nasty, brutish and inexcusable, but let's face it: Rape happens in every imaginable setting -- dark urban alleys, jungles in the Congo, ... employee who claims she was held in a shipping container after coming forward about being gang-raped ... subsidiary Service Employees International Inc., is a stomach turner. After sharing a verboten drink [more...]

Date: 2008-04-11 17:58:00

She ought to be in pictures

As a renter pilot, have you ever been disappointed to learn that one of your favorite airplanes had been sold, ... ) was in a shipping container, en route to a flight school in Brisbane. Fizer tells me the daughter ... like the Skyhawk is going to a good home; Gerry Dick says she’ll be used as a trainer and will share [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 12:54:52

Political Climate: Palin asks California to scrap pollution law

Not content with cheerleading for Big Oil, lobbying against polar bears and denying global warming, ... up: state lawmakers have passed new legislation slapping a $30 charge on each shipping container ... access and depend entirely on the shipment of goods by marine containers," Palin wrote in a letter dated [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 14:58:42

‘Shipping Lines Sail Uncertain Seas’

Here is sobering piece from the WSJ that covers a subject that actually has some bearing on the well being of individuals in the developing world ... are dropping routes and cutting back on shipment frequency.  Definitely worth a read for you Logs out there.  From the article: Last year, the basic price of shipping a large container of goods [more...]

Date: 2008-10-12 23:13:38

Stale blog.

Stale blog. November 3rd, 2008 in Personal Events | 2 Comments » Some of you may have noticed that I suddenly stopped posting about ... a shipping container to move back to Texas. So many things. Also, I don’t think right now I could ... will know how much I love new blogs to read. Something Granny used to tell me has really been helping [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 05:06:53

Eight Items or Less: Shipping Containers of Art and Migraine-Associated Vertigo

ax-containimage.jpg janet-jackson7.jpg 1. Anonymous Gallery is placing four shipping containers filled with art at various locations around NYC from today (October 16) through Sunday [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 21:00:16

Huge Profits From Arborvitae

Anyone can be a farmer. You can too. Why not try growing Arborvitae. They’re simple to grow and plant. They can even make you huge profits ... in a 20′x20′ area, for instance, the size of two parking spaces, in small containers. Arborvitae ... , large tree that is not suitable for close compact container production. Shipping will also [more...]

Date: 2008-11-08 07:27:55

Misuse of Resources, Much?

One of the most interesting/frustrating/funny (cause it has to be or else you go insane) ... I'll give you an example.  We have some friends who have shipped a container of household goods ... contents" (which is apparently like 2 jars of peanut butter), the shipment has been held up in customs [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 13:37:25

Sunday Roundup — Economic Turmoil Edition

I’m feeling a little bit better now. At least the flu is getting better but the economy is still making me feel a bit nauseated ... on shipping containers being turned into inexpensive homes. Sounds awesome. It would definitely need proper ... used books and textbooks. Randall of Credit Withdrawal did a great spoof of Ben Bernanke in a Monty [more...]

Date: 2008-09-28 15:00:22

Globalization: Not such an endangered species after all

How the World Works is not alone in having assumed that the rise of container shipping has been a key globalization-enabler ... technological responses to the heightened trading potential of the period. Freight rates, then, become ... . Technological innovation in maritime transport -- leading to falling freight costs -- is often [more...]

Date: 2008-07-09 21:44:01

The Export Boom: Will It Continue With Strong $?

Much of the world may be struggling with the economic downturn, but life has been getting better in Columbus, Ind., Kingsport, Tenn ... the U.S. for everything from guitar strings and wine corks to used dump trucks and newsprint. The volume is so great that some inland trade hubs can't find enough metal shipping containers to load [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 08:25:00

Multiple Sectors Of The Economy At Risk As Gustav Bears Down

HAMMOND, La. — Although attention is focused on the petroleum industry as Hurricane Gustav takes aim at the Gulf Coast, ... industry, the shipping business, sugar harvesting _ and even such niche products as red-hot Tabasco sauce ... to have her say," said spokesman Mark Crowley of Crowley Maritime Corp., which operates container ships, tugs [more...]

Date: 2008-09-01 09:47:11

Exports jump at L.A., Long Beach ports but imports falter

Incoming goods are down so much that the twin ports are on pace to record their second straight year of declines in overall international trade ... this year, the biggest U.S. contribution to the international supply chain were vast mountains of empty cargo containers outbound on ships to China, where they were quickly refilled with the imports [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 05:23:22

Mobile Performance Venue / Various Architects

Various Architects is a collaborative design office based in Norway, and they shared with us a very innovative project: a Mobile Performance Venue ... on 30 standard containers for shipping. Can´t wait till 2009 to see it? Be sure to check the test i ... A mezzanine area accessible via internal stairs can be used as a lounge, catering space, exhibition s [more...]

Date: 2008-07-29 17:05:47

The Torturer’s Tale

Tony Lagouranis never expected to become a torturer. He didn't even really want to be a soldier. But at 30, he was bored and broke ... Lagouranis. "We took that to mean that we could induce hypothermia, we could keep them in a hot shipping container, in the sun, for days at a time, we can use loud music and strobe lights and things [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 00:59:08

Ship Happens

Wouldn’t you love to get to your office someday and say, “Please, step into my shipping box”? I sure would. The folks over at uShip tipped us off on some interesting ways shipping containers have been reused in the construction of apartments, luxury homes, schools and offices. We’ve seen this trend [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 22:00:27

Dumbest packaging ever?

By Andrea Dickson I understand the need for clean, sterile packaging of food. We live in an era ( ... ... well, servings, I guess. It's sort of hard to describe the containers used without giggling a bit ... peas need to be placed in some kind of container for shipping, and a plastic bag or a thin carboard box [more...]

Date: 2008-08-27 21:17:58

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