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Are shipping container homes actually good for the environment? The reality is more complex than it appears on the surface.

Steel shipping containers are used to crate cargo up and down the Mississippi River and around the world. The Port of New Orleans is filled with the massive steel boxes. This weekend, the New Orleans ...

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Jen Sansosti says reading about shipping containers in the industrial port of Elizabeth, New Jersey, was, in part, what made her want to live in one. She resided across the river in Brooklyn in 2007, ...

Work is scheduled to begin Tuesday on the first single-family home built of shipping containers in Columbus. The nonprofit agency Nothing Into Something Real Estate plans to break ground on the first ...

DETROIT - With a new home comes a place to eat outside of it. A group of childhood friends is currently working out the final details on a project that will erect a nearly 10,000-square-foot ...

Somewhere in the evolution of an arts district — between the opening of the first coffee shop and the introduction of $1,000-a-month “artist lofts” — comes the shipping container park. Since he quit ...

A Malaysian former IT professional founded Singapore's only shipping container hotel chain. Seah Liang Chiang estimates that spent around $700,000 building his chain's first hotel complex. Seah ...