40ft IS DOUBLE THE SIZE OF THE 20FT CONTAINER AND IS THE SECOND MOST POPULAR CONTAINER FOR SHIPPING – AFTER ITS SMALLER COUNTERPART.
Other than shipping, 40ft containers can be repurposed for a variety of uses. They can be modified for use in industries such as housing, hotel and leisure, mining, retail, construction and more.
Technical Specifications
THE 40FT CONTAINER’S TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
- Internal Volume: 67.5m3 (75m3 HCs)
- Tare Weight: 3 660 kg (approx.)
- Gross Weight (max): 30 500 kg
- External length: 12.19m (40ft)
- External width: 2.44m
- External height: 2.59m (2.90m HCs)
- Internal length: 12.03m
- Internal width: 2.35m
- Internal height: 2.39m (2.684m HCs)
All our 40ft cargo containers feature:
- High-quality steel construction with corrugated walls.
- Heavy duty marine flooring.
- Doors that open the whole 270 degrees.
- Multiple lashing points for securing cargo.
- Forklift pockets for easy transportation.
For shipping, the maximum allowed weight of a loaded 40ft container is capped at around 30,000kg – similar to that of a 20ft shipping container. This cap, however, does not apply to containers meant to be used for storage only.
Benefits of 40ft
shipping containers
Shipping containers are built to withstand the rough conditions of open sea which makes them hardy and durable.
The 40ft shipping container can be used for a variety of purposes such as shipping, conversion or storage.
Sea container conversions provide a way of making structures using re-purposed old shipping containers improving the way we utilise resources and minimising wastage.
40FT containers uses
Flat Rack Containers
40ft Flat Rack Containers
High cubes containers
40ft High Cube Containers
Refrigeration Containers
40ft Refrigerated Shipping Containers
General purpose container
