UK box builder bounces back

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Around 100 new jobs have been created at the Catfoss plant of UK container, intermodal, offshore and military equipment manufacturer Yorkshi...

YMCL changes hands

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Yorkshire Mar ine Containers Ltd (YMCL), one of the UK’s few remaining special container manufacturers, has been rescued from administrati...

YMCL goes modular

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The UK’s sole surviving container manufacturer, Yorkshire Marine Containers Ltd (YMCL) has been rescued after a subsidiary of the Catfoss ...

YMCL future in doubt

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The UK’s sole surviving container manufacturer, Yorkshire Marine Containers Ltd (YMCL), has been placed into administration....

Quantum force

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Hull-based Quantum Solutions (UK) Ltd, a company owned by industry veteran John Evans and Dale Botham, a former chief engineer at Sea Contai...

Gichner acquires CMCI

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Gichner Systems Group Inc, a leading supplier of tactical military shelters to the US Armed Forces, has acquired Sea Containers’ US contai...

European box builders squeezed further

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Europe’s container manufacturing industry has been reduced to a mere handful of companies, all of which are battling against an increasing...

New flatrack builder

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The spat between China International Marine Containers (CIMC), owner of the Domino flatrack patents, and its licensees, Singamas and Kumbong...

New folding flatrack hinge

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What is described as the first major advance in collapsible flatrack design in more than a decade has been unveiled by Duraloc Ltd....

European container makers battle it out

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Europe’s container manufacturing industry faces increasingly tough times as it continues to grapple with high production costs, lack of vo...

Customers call a specials tune

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Global demand for standard tank containers is at its lowest ever ebb. Virtually all the former volume production in Europe has now been swit...

Crunch time for dry freight box builders

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The past year has been very tough on manufacturers of dry freight containers, with production forecast to be down by over 40 per cent on the...

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