A container is any receptacle or enclosure for holding a product used in storage, packaging, and transportation, including shipping.
Things kept inside of a container are protected on several sides by being inside of its structure. The term is most frequently applied to devices made from materials that are durable and are often partly or completely rigid.
Simple containers made from gourds being sold for use as calabash in Kenya.
Display of a woven basket from the Maya peoples of Mexico.
A corrugated fiberboard box.
A spine car with a 6 metres (20 ft) tank container and an open-top intermodal shipping container with canvas cover.
A shipping container is a container with strength suitable to withstand shipment, storage, and handling. Shipping containers range from large reusable steel boxes used for intermodal shipments to the ubiquitous corrugated boxes. In the context of international shipping trade, "container" or "shipping container" is virtually synonymous with "intermodal freight container", a container designed to be moved from one mode of transport to another without unloading and reloading.
A flatcar with a 20 ft tanktainer and an open-top 20 ft container with canvas cover
Typical corrugated box (RSC)
A typical IBC.
Example of steel drum
