Top 4 Benefits of Using Shipping Containers to Move your Home or Business

When it comes to moving your home or business property, the first thing to come to your mind would be professional movers or rental trucks. However, this option has certain critical disadvantages that necessitate a better choice: using shipping containers. Here are four benefits of choosing shipping containers to move your home or business.

• Secure: Conventionally, shipping containers move goods across the globe. To achieve this purpose, they are designed to be sturdy, weather-proof, and easy to secure. Serious consideration should be given to using shipping containers for moving your home or business securely.
• Easy to transport: Once you pack your property in the containers, specialized container lifting equipment will place your container(s) onto flatbed trucks for transportation to your destination. They are easier to move than transportation trucks, which may be difficult to navigate across tight corners and through busy streets. Also, you can load several of them on the same flatbed if you have more items to move from one location to the other.
• Versatile: Unlike rental trucks, shipping containers can also serve as temporary storage solutions. They would be quite useful if your staff needs several days to pack and unpack since these containers are strong and can be secured with locks so no one can break into them. You could also park the containers in a safe neighborhood, as you ponder your next move.
• Give more time: Since they can also serve as storage containers, they give you more time to plan your next move. You could let your property remain in them for some time without worrying about costs or inconveniences, as would be the case if you hired rental trucks.

R&A Container Lifting offers versatile shipping containers, storage and logistics for secure and easy transportation. If you are considering moving your home or business to a new location, please contact us.