Students Create Homes From Containers (WJXT Jacksonville) - Construction management students at UNF work to create portable homes from old shipping containers. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Senior students in the University of North Florida's Industrial Construction course are usually required to put their book knowledge to the test.

100, 000 Offshore Containers Certified By DNV (OilandGasOnline) - First launched in 1989, DNV's Certification 2.7-1 for Offshore Containers has become the industry standard. Early February, DNV achieved a significant milestone, certifying the organisation's 100,000th offshore container

UNF Project Turns Cargo Containers Into Homes (First Coast News) - JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- It's hard to imagine someone living in an old cargo container that's been rusting at the port, but it's a reality thanks to some local college students.

Business briefs: March 11 (Knoxville News Sentinel) - Knoxville firm wins TNInvestco fundingKnoxville-based TrakLok Corp., developer of a security device for shipping containers, will receive funding from Innova, an investor in the biosciences, technology and agbio fields across Tennessee.The investment is Innova's first under the Tennessee Small Business Company Investment Credit Act, Innova announced Wednesday.TrakLok developed GeoLok, a security ...

CEPS urged to auction contents of over-stayed containers (Ghanaweb.com) - Tema, March 8, GNA - Mr Cletus Kuzagbe, President of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) - Ghana, has appealed to the Customs Exercise and Preventive Service (CEPS) to auction the contents of containers that had stayed in the Ports for far too long.

Liberty Prints At Target; Free Play Reading, Museum Admission (Hartford Courant) - H2O To Go Forget bottled water from the supermarket. H2O is on tap 24-7 at The Burnside Ice Co. , 776 Tolland St. in East Hartford, where local folks line up around the clock to fill containers with inexpensive well water from the self-serve, coin-operated spigots. (Bring your own containers and quarters. Water is 50 cents a gallon.) The water's source is a 400-foot artesian well drilled through ...

Making cargo containers into homes (MalaysiaNews.net) - JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- If people can live in trailers, why not converted cargo containers?The movement is apparently gaining steam.Jacksonville-based Conglobal Industries says sales have picked up in ...

Cutting edge: Making cargo containers into homes? (NBC 2 Fort Myers) - Associated Press - March 8, 2010 7:04 AM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - If people can live in trailers, why not converted cargo containers? The movement is apparently gaining...

Garden club holds meeting (Fort Myers Beach Bulletin & Observer) - At the Estero Island Garden Club meeting on March 1, Debbie Hughes, horticulturalist at the Ford and Edison Winter Estates, made a presentation on "Container Gardening." Debbie brought with her many examples of flowers and plants suitable for growing in containers.

Knoxville company funded under TNInvestco program (Knoxville News Sentinel) - KNOXVILLE -- TrakLok Corp., developer of a security device for shipping containers, will receive funding from Innova, an investor in the biosciences, technology and agbio fields across Tennessee.The investment is Memphis-based Innova’s first under the the Tennessee Small Business Company Investment Credit Act, Innova announced today.Financial details of Innova's investment were not disclosed ...