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Holland Container Innovations (HCI) has proposed the technical solution of 4FOLD foldable container to overcome the challenges of empty containers. Project coordinator, Simon Bosschieter, explains: “Four stacked folded 4FOLD containers have the same dimensions as one container, enabling the reduction of transport movements by up to 75 %.”
As previously noted, the foldable container is now used at more than 60 depots and ports and on 15 shipping lines and growing in popularity all the time. “The shipping industry is typically very conservative,” said Broekhuis.
Konings and Thijs summarized clearly the conditions for the success of foldable containers in the market: (1) low costs for folding and unfolding the containers; (2) low manufacturing costs; (3) compatibility with existing equipment for intermodal transport; and (4) structural robustness.
Foldable containers are considered an effective solution to deal with the endemic imbalance in the repositioning of empty containers. Several foldable containers were commercialized without clear breakthrough in the market and most current researches are still limited to small pilot projects.
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