A SELF storage depot made up of 83 shipping containers can be built on a site just off Leeds Road. Planning permission for the storage depot on Buck Street was approved by Bradford Council this week.
Houses designed using shipping containers are becoming omnipresent ... bean bag chairs for relaing, and even storage cupboards that double as a safety divider from the stairs opening.
As manufacturers went into lockdown and closed factories, many of the containers used to ship those manufactured goods were left stranded at ports or storage depots, where they weren’t needed.
In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in ...