Maximising Shipping Container Efficiency with Accessories: Lighting, Moisture Control, and Security
Last Updated on October 3, 2024
Introduction
Container accessories will make your life easier by ensuring your container’s security and functionality. To maximise the potential of your container, accessories are increasingly essential.
The main types of container accessories we will cover are:
- Lighting
- Moisture control
- Security options
Importance of container accessories
These container accessories will improve the longevity of your purchased or rented container and ensure safety is taken into account.
Proper lighting ensures that you and your staff can use the container safely. If your staff can’t see what they are doing in the container, costly mistakes can be made. Having sufficient lighting enables time efficiency and is therefore cost-saving.
A good security system will also reduce costs. Protecting our goods and container contents is what we all want and by deterring opportunists this will certainly avoid loss and replacement costs.
Moisture control will certainly protect your goods. Without a moisture control system your goods could be damaged and this may be costly to rectify.
Lighting Solutions
Lighting is obviously a useful tool in order to keep the shipping container well lit for your staff and yourself to use the container safely.
We have a couple sizes of battery-operated motion sensor magnetic lights.
Motion sensor lights are perfect, as there are no switches to remember to turn on or off. They are also easy to install as they are magnetic, and they will fit perfectly into the corrugations of the container, in the roof or on the side panels.
Sizes available: 12 inches long or 24 inches long.
This one below is 12 inches long. Click on the image below to purchase online.
Moisture control methods
Excess moisture inside a container is an unknown quantity. It really depends on how you use your container.
If, for example, you are going to open the container doors on a weekly basis on a dry day, then often that can be enough to keep the moisture levels to a minimum.
It also depends on what you are storing in your container. For example, if you are storing wet goods, then your container is going to sweat hugely on those hot/warm days.
With second hand containers, moisture levels can be higher, as knowledge of previous cargoes are unknown to the end user and pretty much every time a container goes into a container depot, it can be steam cleaned. All containers have wooden floors. With the best will in the world, the depots do try to dry the container floor out before re-use, but this can take too long before the next loading of cargo.
So you will find that second hand containers are more likely to sweat on hot/warm days.
We have a product called an ‘Absorpole’ which helps to reduce the moisture levels hugely. Click the below image for more information and to buy online.
Security and Locking systems
Security and locking systems are paramount to protect your goods and container.
We weld a lockbox to the container doors prior to it leaving the depot.
We can supply and deliver these lockboxes to your site; however, we cannot weld them on site. Of course, if you have the welding facility then we would be delighted to supply.
The lockbox acts as a housing for a padlock. It deters opportunists from accessing the area with bolt croppers.
The padlock is fitted into the lockbox with a shoot bolt system.
Click here for online purchase of padlocks.
Please see the video below showing how it works:
For more information about our locks or to buy online, please click here.
Choosing the right container accessories for your needs
Here is a checklist to help you determine what you need for the safe and secure use of your container.
- Work out where the container is going to be positioned. Will it be on a secure site, or will it be in an open and easily accessible area?
- Who is going to be responsible for the container?
- Do you need more than 3 padlock keys for your container?
- Who is going to be using the container on a regular basis?
- Do you need lighting?
- How often will you open and close the container?
- Do you need moisture control in your container?
- What are you storing in your container? Will there be sensitive products? What is the value of your goods?
- Insurance for your container and contents is highly recommended.
- Do you need the full package? Lighting, security and moisture control?
This list is not exhaustive, and I am sure you may well have other questions that we have not covered here.
Conclusion
It is very important to consider the container accessories that you need. We highly recommend purchasing quality products that will give you longevity and peace of mind.
The benefits of lighting, moisture control and security will put your mind at rest, knowing that they will keep your staff safe, the container and goods protected and extend the container life.
For more information about our Container Accessories please click here.
We are here to advise you on what you might need for your container, so call us on 0800 121 7388 or GET a QUOTE today.
