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Jen and I took a trip up to the Pacific Northwest last week. Living in Austin, you see shipping containers primarily in transit - either on trains or being hauled by trucks. When you visit port cities like Vancouver or Seattle, you see these massive container ships coming into port, the cranes that they use to pull them off the boat and the depots that hold all the containers. The volume of shipping containers is truly amazing.  Mark Levinson even writes about the dramatic impact of shipping containers in his book “The Box : How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger“.

With natural trade imbalances, where would all these shipping containers go?  You can’t just throw them away.  The portable storage container industry is part of this ecosystem, recycling the retired shipping containers and finding a new use for them.   We’ve been “green” all this time, even before “green” was cool.  Who would’ve thought?  People will find more and more uses for retired shipping containers. My hope is that  Falcon Storage will be at the forefront of that innovation, figuring out what’s beyond portable storage.  If anything, I’m happy to know that we are helping with the whole green initiative.