Shipping Containers for Sale in

Houston TX

Local Economy of Shipping Containers in Houston

Houston is a coastal shipping container depot location and transportation hub where intermodal Conex boxes are transported both by ship, rail and road throughout the city. Houston is geographically located in the southern US on the Gulf Coast. The seaport Port of Houston supported by its extensive network of both railroad freight routes and interstate highway system make Houston a hub for container shipping in the USA. The Conex Depot Houston container storage facility is located at ZIP 77547, just east of the 146 near where it meets the 225 connector.

 

 

Popular Shipping Containers Uses in Houston

Buy Shipping Containers in Houston. Buy a shipping container from Conex Depot, with all different sizes of both new and used cargo containers for sale. Conex Depot sells to both individuals and to businesses in the greater Houston region and in 38 cities all over the USA. It’s easy to contact us and buy a used shipping container direct from Conex Depot in Houston. You can save money and time shopping around by talking to one of our ConexDepot service representatives online.

Houston shipping container projects and shipping container related businesses

There are several options (and growing) for Houstonians to enjoy food and beverage in novelty Conex container cafes, restaurants and bars. Truck Yard Container Bar in Houston. Have you ever enjoyed a drink or cocktail in a shipping container bar? The shipping container bar project described as “a COME-AS-YOU-ARE beer garden and adult playground” from bar group Bridget Dunlap (also known for Clive Bar, Bar 96 and Lustre Pearl) is behind the idea for the cool food and beverage space. Constructed out of seven repurposed cargo containers, the Rainey Street watering hole is a cool and unique way to meet with friends over drinks.

Café Bustelo shipping container coffee shop opens in Montrose. Latin coffee chain Café Bustelo has opened a cafe in the Houston neighborhood of Montrose. It’s difficult to miss the big yellow can housing the sea container coffee shop which serves serve Latin coffee drinks like cafe con leche or a cafecito (a sweetened espresso) or a party-sized espresso. Café Bustelo also has an outdoor patio on top of the container with distinctive yellow umbrellas. The plan is to operate the Café Bustelo’s shipping container cafe on a temporary basis from March 12 through May 25. Café Bustelo features food, drinks, and music, with art exhibitions by local artists. Check out the pop-up cafe at 3615 Montrose Boulevard.

Shipping container home developments, Shipping container apartments and tiny homes in Houston

According to a feature by The Wayward Home on the Houston Chronicle.com, Houston home shoppers can consider a number of shipping container homes. The prices of the custom built Conex container homes range from $40,000 to $100,000 and up depending on the features you desire. Container home builders in Houston build custom homes out of a custom configuration of stacked and connected 20 and 40-foot steel containers. Buyers can buy a used shipping container, and then choose from options of floor plans, siding, colors, flooring, cabinet, fixtures, and kitchen builds. The advantages of a repurposed Conex box home are:, environmentally friendly construction (upcyling), low VOC paints, wood sourced from sustainable forests, LED lighting, energy-efficient appliances, green homes may be equipped with solar power panels and rainwater collection systems

Luxury Shipping Container Living Pod in Houston, Texas

Have you ever heard of a “Micro-luxury Container Living Pod”? The 20 foot, steel shipping containers are renovated and into tiny luxury apartments. The Living pods are marketed as a unique, novelty vacation hot-spot for couples or solo travelers all with sustainability and being environmentally conscious. Several such air-conditioned and WiFi equipped pods are listed on Airbnb starting at an affordable $26 per night.

HIVE – a Houston shipping container apartment and community project

The inspiration for the ambitious HIVE housing and community project came from an artist colony and living collective. The vision for HIVE is “a sustainable village and living work of art” built from more than 500 recycled shipping containers that will make its home on a 6.5 acre vacant piece of land just outside the city of Houston. HIVE will function as a non-profit, partnering with local companies, creative professionals, and environmentalist groups to bring the project to life. Buildings will be created entirely from recycled shipping containers and targeted as affordable working spaces affordable for working artists and creative professionals. The 288 complex container spaces with be used by tenants for many different possible uses including offices, studio spaces, retail shops, food vendors, and residents. Rents are expected to run from $300 to $500 a month, with a $10,000 to $50,0000 price to buy the container space. The containers may be equipped with solar panels and green technologies and are designed to protect against hurricanes and extreme outside temperatures. More basic container spaces will be outfitted simply with electricity and plumbing. The overall vision for HIVE is to contain all of the amenities of a regular village – a farmers’ market, veterinarian clinic, a daycare center, a medical clinic, recycling centers, cafes and other services.

 

 

Houston, Texas national highway intermodal transportation routes

Goods are transported in shipping containers on the Houston highway system. The greater Houston area is encircled by rings of highways—nine major radial freeways, three ring freeways, and a future 180-mile fourth outer ring. Greater Houston possesses a hub-and-spoke limited-access highway system, in which a number of freeways radiate outward from Downtown, with ring roads providing connections between these radial highways at intermediate distances from the city center.

The city is crossed by three Interstate highways, Interstate 10, Interstate 45, and Interstate 69 (commonly known as U.S. Route 59), as well as a number of other United States routes and state highways.

Houston Railroad Conex container shipping routes

The state of Texas has more miles of rail and more track than any other state, with over 10,000 track miles. The Houston area is served by three major (Class I) railroad companies: BNSF Railway Company, Kansas City Southern Railway Company , Union Pacific Railroad Company. Businesses surrounding the Houston ship channel are served by the Port Terminal Railroad Association. Fourteen mainline tracks circulate from Houston. Texas has always been a major freight hub within North America. The two railroads that primarily serve east to west traffic are Union Pacific and BNSF. The Kansas City Southern primary serves north to south traffic including into and out of Mexico.

Port of Houston

The Port of Houston is one of the world’s largest ports located on the Gulf Coast. The Port is comprised of a 25-mile-long complex of nearly 200 private and public industrial terminals along the 52-mile-long Houston Ship Channel. Eight public terminals are owned, operated by the Port of Houston Authority, including the general cargo terminals at the Turning Basin, Care, Jacintoport, Woodhouse, and the Barbours Cut and Bayport container terminals. The Port of Houston is ranked 1st in the United States in yearly foreign waterborne tonnage with more than 247 million tons of cargo move through the Port of Houston, carried by more than 8,200 vessels and 215,000 barges. Ideally located on the Gulf Coast, Houston is a strategic hub for cargo originating in or destined for the U.S. West and Midwest. Abundant truck, rail and air connecting routes enable shippers to efficiently transport their goods between the Port of Houston and inland intermodal points.

Houston main export businesses that use shipping containers

According to figures by the USA Trade Numbers org., Houston’s top exports and imports in 2020 are: 1 Gasoline, other fuels $7.78 B, 2 Oil $5.45 B, 3 LNG, other petroleum gases $3.52 B, 4 Plastics $3.05 B, 5 Acyclic hydrocarbons $1.16 B, 6 Cyclic hydrocarbons $810.36 M, 7 Ethers, ether-alcohols, alcohol peroxides etc. $764.32 M, 8 Parts for heavy machinery $443.14 M, 9 Cotton $429.37 M, 10 Acetic acids, vinyl acetates, etc. $414.52 M

Top Imports: 1 Gasoline, other fuels $2.2 B, 2 Oil $2.05 B, 3 Passenger vehicles $1.02 B, 4 Seamless iron tubes and pipes $640.16 M, 5 Misc. raw materials for industrial manufacturing $456.91 M, 6 Taps, cocks and valves for pipes, tanks $433.22 M, 7 Returned exports, without change $392.71 M, 8 Cyclic hydrocarbons $379.48 M, 9 Power supplies, transformers $370.85 M, 10 Furniture, parts $361.14 M

Many of Houston’s largest companies employ shipping containers in their business

A recent figure showed 19 Fortune 500 companies headquartered in Houston: Phillips 66, Sysco, ConocoPhillips, Enterprise Products Partners, Plains All American Pipeline, Halliburton, Waste Management, Inc., Kinder Morgan, Occidental Petroleum, EOG Resources, Group 1 Automotive, CenterPoint Energy, Quanta Services, Targa Resources, Calpine, Westlake Chemical, National Oilwell Varco, Apache Corporation, Cheniere Energy

Using Cargo storage containers for self storage in Houston

A very popular use for various sizes of steel shipping containers in Houston is self storage.
Consumers usually either buy a used shipping container or rent one from a Houston shipping container seller and store it on their property or rent a space to park the storage container. Conex Depot specializes in the sale of shipping and storage containers in the Metro Houston area and can give you advice and pricing on the best size of shipping container for your personal storage or business storage needs. Whether you need a storage container for keeping inventory, securing construction materials, or storing furniture during a remodeling project, we have a number of storage solutions that will meet your needs.

Conex Depot offers all sizes and grades of shipping containers for sale in Houston. Our sales team offer free project advice and the very best pricing on quality new and used shipping containers. Call now: (661) 412-2227.