Shipping Container Housing Online was developed as we began to research housing alternatives for our 20 acre bush block in Queensland, Australia.
We were searching for an econimical way to develop a holiday house and our research convinced us to build a house using shipping containers.

Who are we? We're not engineers or architects or specialists. We are ordinary folk working on building our wealth through our diverse investment portfolio.

We will update this website periodically with information and with articles written by real specialists and with our own thoughts and opinions.

Now, on with the info.

The shipping containers industry produces a lot of these containers each and every year. We're talking mainly about Shipping containers. An estimated One hundred million container loads crisscross the world's oceans each year in over 5,000 container ships, moving an estimated 90 percent of the world's trade today in containers. They are used to transport goods all over the world. They represented a real revolution in the transportation industry beginning in the mid 1950s.

There are problems created by shipping containers. After they are used a few times they become used shipping containers and are no longer suitable for moving goods. Used shipping containers take a lot of space and represent a potential storage nightmare. So they represent a brilliant opportunity for anyone who can ponder why not use these containers for something else?.
In fact, as they are so solid and structurally sound, why not build a house, a shelter, even whole neighbourhoods? At present, this "Idea" is in it's infancy and growing because shipping container housing potentially represents a real solution to current social and ecological problems.