September 9, 2010

Local Dock Workers Send Relief Package to Samoa – The Journal of Commerce Online

Radio New Zealand International Local Dock Workers Send Relief Package to Samoa The Journal of Commerce Online October 14, 2009 — Fifteen shipping containers packed with dry foods, medicine, blankets and other essentials were loaded onto a ship at the Port of Long … Supplies for Samoan relief leave Port of Long Beach Long Beach Press-Telegram all 6 news articles

New Zealand Post Group Supports Pacific Tsunami Relief Efforts – Voxy

New Zealand Post Group Supports Pacific Tsunami Relief Efforts Voxy The Postal Services Group is funding the provision and transportation of four 40ft shipping containers to enable its employees to send emergency items to …

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New Zealand navy ship leaves for tsunami-hit Tonga, Samoa – Xinhua

New Zealand navy ship leaves for tsunami-hit Tonga, Samoa Xinhua Its cargo includes 12 shipping containers of donated goods bound for Samoa, specialist supplies and items requested by the two countries' governments, … and more

Supplies wanted for aid containers for Samoa – Radio New Zealand

Supplies wanted for aid containers for Samoa Radio New Zealand Samoan community leaders in New Zealand are preparing to send up to 30 shipping containers full of aid to families affected by the tsunami. …

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DIY your own jail cells

Prisoners could be forced to build their own jail cells from shipping containers.
Corrections has yet to respond to Collins on the proposal for shipping-container cells, which she said would “be spartan but humane and clean.
But Collins said the shipping containers would provide a better standard of housing than some of the country’s older prisons such as Auckland’s Mt Eden and Wellington’s Mt Crawford.
The shipping containers would give prison authorities more flexibility in managing the inmate population.
Auckland, Rimutaka and Hastings were the immediate pressure points, and the intention would be to put the containers on land next to existing prisons, effectively increasing the bed-count.
Opposition corrections spokesman Clayton Cosgrove accused Collins of playing popular politics and said the proposal would create more tension for prison officers.

nz-cells Prisoners could be forced to build their own jail cells from shipping containers.

Corrections has yet to respond to the proposal for shipping-container cells, which she said would “be spartan but humane and clean.

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port-a-bach

The port-a-bach is mobile holiday house which is based on a shipping container and can be used to supply energy when combined with a photovoltaic solar system. www.port-a-bach.com

 

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port-a-bach

Container House in New Zealand

Design by Ross Stevens, a lecturer in Industrial Design at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.

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Design by Ross Stevens

Design by Ross Stevens