What Are The Advantages Of A Shipping Container Canopy?

As a New Year approaches, your company may be busy making plans for the future and that could include finding means of storing various goods, equipment, or both.

There are all kinds of different shelters in our range and this enables us to serve a wide array of needs. Not everyone needs to store large quantities of items, for instance, while some will need more space than others.

Therefore, it is important to consider each kind of canopy and shelter we offer to establish which one is the best for your requirements.

Among the most versatile options is a shipping container canopy. 

The adaptation of used shipping containers has been a major growth industry in recent years. You may have seen them being used for storage on land, or cut open on one side and used as stalls or food outlets on dedicated sites in towns and cities. They have also been used as homes or even offices.

Why Are Shipping Containers Great For Canopies?

The idea of a shelter takes this concept further by using multiple containers and connecting them with a canopy that is moored to them on either side.

Doing this generates a series of significant benefits for the users.

·       It creates a lot of extra space under the canopy, which reaches higher than many others.

·       The containers add extra space that can be used for storage, an office or a workshop, or even a shelter within a shelter to stay warm in winter

·       The robustness of the shipping containers means the whole structure is firm and resistant to severe weather like high winds

·       The containers can be single or double-stacked units, so you can have as much container space as you need

A particular benefit of these containers is that they enable different things to be stored. Items that need to be kept dry or locked away for security can be kept in the containers, while other things, such as large stacks of building materials or industrial vehicles, can be kept in the open space under the canopy.

How Can Shipping Container Canopies Protect Against Storms?

Such containers might be especially useful during bad weather, as mooring the canopy to something close to an immovable object may prove invaluable when the almost irresistible force of a fierce storm arrives.

It remains to be seen what kind of autumn and winter storm season we end up with overall, but there have already been some severe weather incidents, with some parts of the UK facing yellow ‘danger to life’ warnings. The latest of the four storms seen so far in the current season was Storm Bram, which brought winds of over 80 mph to parts of North Wales.

Even gusts of this strength will not be enough to blow over a heavy shipping container, nor pull loose a firmly-attached canopy. This means you can be sure that if such stormy weather hits the area where the canopy is located, it will withstand whatever is thrown at it.

Having been designed to deal with stormy seas, your shipping containers can ensure the canopy handles any high winds encountered on land, protecting everything that is stored below.