Container noise barrier in Hamburg’s “Schanzenviertel”
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.
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.
iCON International Container Service at the Intermodal Europe 2017 Once again, Intermodal Europe was marked red in the iCON calendar. Preparations for the three-day event started early. With iCON staff there from the US, New Zealand and Hamburg, almost every office was represented.The logistics and container exhibition provides the perfect platform for us to strengthen existing partnerships and make new connections. Not solely a networking event, the Intermodal also offers interesting conferences and workshops. Everything on containers, transport and new developments in the sector.
5x5k, 2050 teams, more than 10,000 finishers – and iCON in the thick of it! The team iCON participated with 5 runners in the MOPO Team-Run in Hamburg’s Central Park. Next to this sport event the idea was to have fun and enjoy a great evening with BBQ and drinks. For sure this event will be followed by many more its kind.
A container shows its versatility We’ve known for a long time that the standard sea container has more than one use. For example, in the industrial sector, containers are used in construction, while the building industry implements them as noise barriers. The path of the container to the playground was a little more rocky and the idea – like so many good ones – was born from necessity.
