Canadian Company Invents the First Self-Lifting Shipping Container
The shipping industry has always been complicated and expensive, especially when there’s big cargo involved. If you’re shipping a car, for example, you’re going to pay about 60% more just to transport your vehicle in an enclosed carrier rather than an open carrier.
Many consumers are willing to take this in stride and either pay the extra money or settle for less vehicle protection on the road -- but one Canadian company took a different approach to the shipping industry, and instead asked how the odious task of shipping big cargo can be simplified so that consumer costs can be cut.
Introducing the SL-tainer, a shipping container that has four hydraulic legs and can actually lift itself over five feet high, using pop-out legs, making it easier for loading crews to bring the container ont...