When you consider the logistics involved in moving goods around the world, container storage plays a vital role in the efficient navigation of worldwide container transportation. The invention of shipping containers revolutionised the haulage and transport industry, enabling the safe and seamless movement of goods across seas to facilitate trade, as well as making it easier to store goods ready for transit. 

Containers are the cornerstone of the shipping industry. These durable steel boxes provide a standardised storage and transportation system, ensuring that goods can always be safely and efficiently stacked, stored, and transported by land and by sea. Containers are suitable for many different goods of so many different shapes and sizes, keeping them safe from the elements, free from damage, and secure from unauthorised personnel.

When shipping containers are not being transported via road haulage, or transferred onto ships for international transportation, they require suitable container storage facilities. Whilst storage at port terminals may seem like an ideal choice, ensuring that goods are as close as possible to shipping facilities to be ready for transportation by sea, key shipping ports can be highly populated and charge extremely high fees in order to encourage cargo to keep moving. The ideal solution to aid worldwide container transport and haulage is reliable, specialist off-dock container storage facilities.

Off-dock storage provides a number of important advantages, including maximising efficiency of ports by alleviating congestion, and allowing much more storage and shipping flexibility. Should there be delays further along the supply chain, off-dock facilities ensure that containers can stay safe until they are ready to be shipped without potentially expensive delays.

Container lifting

Container lifting equipment is important for container storage and transport because it allows for the safe and efficient movement and handling of containers. Given that they are constructed from heavy duty steel, built for durability, containers can be extremely heavy and bulky. Lifting equipment, such as cranes and reach stackers, are specifically designed to lift and move containers weighing as much as 45 tonnes. 

Different types of lifting methods are used depending on the type of container. These lifting methods ensure that containers can be easily loaded, stacked, and transported, minimising transit times, preventing damage to goods or containers, and enhancing overall supply chain efficiency. Without proper lifting equipment, the handling of containers would be highly labour-intensive, time-consuming, and potentially unsafe.

As a UK haulier, specialising in container transport, we have invested heavily in our container depots, including our Liverpool storage hub, located just a few miles away from Royal Seaforth Container Terminal, one of the world’s leading international container shipping ports.

With 4 acres of yard, our North West container hub allows for safe storage of as many as 600 TEU containers at any one time. We have invested heavily in solutions for both light and laden lifting, ensuring that all containers can be safely lifted and stacked. For lighter containers, we can use fork lifting equipment to move and stack, whereas for containers weighing as much as 45 tonnes, we make use of reach stackers, which are designed to work in a small footprint, providing safe loading for all sizes of container, lifting and stacking them up to five containers high.

If you are looking for a container haulage and storage partner, our team are here to ensure your containers get to where they need to be on the supply chain at the right time, helping you move goods throughout the UK and across the world.

As the People’s haulier, we are here to help you find a solution for your worldwide container haulage needs.