For many of us it has become the norm to go online when we want to buy something. There we find the usual, the unusual, and the extraordinary. The path to the product we desire is no longer via email (or even a phone call). Now we place our order with a couple of clicks. So why not buy containers online? Enter the container shop.
There is no topic as current and omnipresent as living situations. Where and how do I live – and can I actually afford it? Especially in times of limited housing space we ask ourselves if there are more sustainable living concepts. While the term “Tiny House” is already fairly well known, the idea of the “Container house” is a bit more specific.
The reason for this unusual application was, for a change, not a building site. For a whole two and a half weeks, the parking lot by the west entrance of the exhibition center was transformed into an open-air oasis. At the festival called “45Hertz” a colorful mixture of different music genres was being played. They all had the same goal: to get the masses dancing under the famous Hamburg Television Tower. Luckily, the weather was on its best behavior. And so, more than 10,000 visitors found their way into the “Schanze”.
For this year’s Intermodal ASIA, the management team from iCON Hamburg traveled to China for the first time. While we were there, we also visited container manufacturers in Taichang and Nantong and met with old and new acquaintances. Being close to our suppliers is incredibly important for future collaborations and the high quality of our products.
The time has finally come for the SC Sternschanze to get its new mini-container. The football club with a long-standing tradition does not have a lot of room in the middle of Hamburg. For much too long now, the groundskeeper’s tractor didn’t have a dry shelter. But that has just been changed.
This year, the annual NPSA conference and tradeshow took place in Florida – the Sunshine State. Great news for iCON America, as the location of the event in beautiful West Palm Beach was only an hour’s car ride away from the Fort Lauderdale office.
The 20’ side door container in the center of attention If you compare all the different logistics trade fairs in Germany, one definitely stands out. The LogiMAT, the most important trade show for intralogistics solutions and process management worldwide, took place for the 16th time this year. The main topics were digitization, big data and industry 4.0. And, alongside SE-LogCon, iCON Container made its debut as an exhibitor with a 20’ side door container.
The task of the Hamburg bomb disposal unit When we hear bomb disposal, our first thought is: „Red wire or blue?“, but real life for the Hamburg bomb disposal unit looks very different. The Ministry of Interior and Sports is responsible for the disposal and destruction of all conventionally manufactured weapons, though they mostly deal with bombs from World War II. How the container fit in you can read at the end of this arcticle.
Early years in Hamburg Let me introduce Gordon Fullard, a long term company friend and for almost two years now the face of iCON International Container Services in “Down Under”. While Gordon is originally from Great Britain he moved to Hamburg 37 years ago. Before he came to Germany he had worked as a field surveyor and had never seen a container. In Hamburg he needed to find a job and a job listing in the “Hamburger Abendblatt” quoted that a shipping company needed someone with excellent English skills. While Gordon didn’t speak any German yet, he had just found his new position as a container controller.
When you live and work in Hamburg, a container is not an unusual sight. You see them on the streets, on ships on the river Elbe, and along construction sites and warehouses. An everyday sight that still manages to surprise and wow, is the view of the opposite riverbank and the harbor from the Landungsbrücken. There, units are piled up to huge stacks. Whether already loaded or still on the quay, containers are everywhere.
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