Bespoke Aluminium Shipping Containers

I started to work with Dunlop Trelleborg approximately 18 months ago, they approached us looking for a company to work with on the design of a protective container to house their client’s shipping fenders, the fenders that Dunlop manufacture are used in emergency proceedures – if there are oil leeks / spillages to contain them, if a ship needs assistance whilst at sea, the fenders are blown up to size to prevent ships ‘coming together’ and to stop impact damage.

The remit was to provide a container that would be weather proof, sea proof, one that could accomodate the 2 tonne fender to be readily accessible as it would need to be removed from the container and actioned with the minimum of fuss.

We met with the client and worked through the technical details, tweeking a few things like lid access, locking mechanisms, hinge mechanisms. We produced CAD drawings and rendered images to illustrate the layout and the structure of the finished container as we envisaged it. The client was pleased and we received the confirmation to proceed.

The deadline of the ten container delivery is the end of August, the client has successfully taken delivery of the first 5 containers with the balance on schedule to be delivered mid August, ahead of the deadline.