How one container company is thriving during lockdown

The housing crisis is a global dilemma. Utilising shipping containers to create work as well as home spaces, might just be the answer to this challenge.

Jeff Bezos said about books “The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.”

The same applies to shipping containers. It all depends on the amount of inventiveness in the “eye of the beholder”. Once you open your imagination to the vast possibilities of upcycling shipping containers, you will not only feel like a true visionary, but will be blown away by the resourcefulness of ideas your mind can dream up.

Banostar Pty Ltd t/a Container King was established in 2015 with the aim of supplying new and used shipping containers to the domestic African market. The owner of the company, Raymond Marais, has been in the shipping container industry since 1993.

Container King has a depot in Centurion with the necessary facilities to accommodate any container conversion work. Their standard work comprises new and used shipping containers which can be used for virtually anything. “Your imagination is your only limitation,” said Marais.

The shipping containers supplied by Container King can be used for several projects such as:

• Storage
• Refrigerated containers
• Standard site offices
• Site offices with airconditioners
• Executive site offices
• Ablutions – toilets only male and female
• Ablution – Showers only.
• Ablution combinations – toilets and showers.
• Prefabricated buildings
• Park homes
• Insulated containers
• Office block containers

In addition to this Container King also does specialized conversions such as:

• Turnstile units for access control.
• Laboratories.
• Container homes.
• hook lift bins
• Underground radar housing for the mining sector.
• Pop up shops such as restaurants and bars.
• MCC housing units.
• Control rooms.
• Morgues
• Double wide units.

The containers vary in length i.e. : 3M ( 10ft ) , 6M ( 20’ ) and 12M ( 40’ ) the width of containers is generic with an external width of 2450 mm.

Park homes have a standard width of 3M but can be adapted to virtually any length.

Container King services the entire of RSA with a network of transporters, depots and partners. This enables them to do deliveries nationwide. “In addition to this we have the network in place to deliver anywhere in Africa or the world. One of our more recent projects was to build and erect an office block in Luanda to house 50 pax,” said Marais.

Container King strive to be a flexible, hassle-free and innovative enterprise.
Marais said “We can fulfill any storage, accommodation or special project which you may have in mind. Our staff is friendly and highly skilled at manufacturing and converting new and pre-owned shipping containers.”

If you are looking into the vast possibilities of utilising shipping containers, do consider Container King for your next project. ‘Out of the box’ thinking has never been more ‘in the box’ as right now during this enlightened era.

Buy outright or rent today.