Shipping containers all over the world all look fairly similar. The truth is that their construction is fairly basic. That does not mean that they are all made up to the same standard, even though the parts used are the same. You may think that a shipping container is just a big metal box, but their construction is a bit more sophisticated than you may think. For the weights that these metal boxes can carry, they have to be very strongly built because if they are not, then the structure could