We are thrilled to introduce
our new line of chassis. By expanding our product range
to include both new and used chassis, we aim to offer our customers
greater flexibility and choice, empowering them to optimize their
shipping operations efficiently.
Designed to meet the evolving
needs of the shipping and logistics industry, ModalART's chassis
offer:
Robust construction
for durability
Compatibility with
standard container sizes
Superior performance
in various conditions
Cost-effective
solutions without compromising quality
ModalART Chassis is now
available for order, with delivery options tailored to meet customer
timelines and requirements. For more information, visit
ModalART Chassis.
ModalART offers
super sturdy
DNV 2.7-1
Dry Vans and Refrigerated Offshore Containers worldwide!
ModalART's units
meet the stringent
Det Norske Veritas 2.7-1
certification standards for 'offshore' containers. The
IMO (International Maritime
Organization) defines an offshore container as a "portable unit,
specially designed for repeated use in the transport of goods or
equipment to, from or between fixed and/or
floating offshore installations and ships".
Offshore
Containers are significantly stronger than ISO units and are mainly
used on oil and gas platforms.
ModalART ships to
Dakar, Senegal,
Miami, USA, or anywhere else.
MODALART INTRODUCES DO-IT-YOURSELF KITS: BUILD
YOUR OWN MOBILE OFFICE CONTAINER, OFFICE/STORAGE COMBO OR TINY HOME/ SHELTER
Wilton, Connecticut, USA, August 2019
Do-it-yourself and save money!
ModalART introduces low-cost, do-it-yourself shipping container
component kits with everything you need to build your own Mobile
Office Container, Office/Storage Combo, or Emergency Shelter! Kits
are shipped to any location in the USA!
Standard kits are configured for 20' and 40' Standard Height, and
20' and 40' High Cube shipping containers. They include all
components to either build a full mobile office container, or combo container that
is subdivided into an office and storage section.
Being climate controlled and insulated, they are suitable for emergency shelters or permanent tiny homes.
ModalART offers the flexibility to meet any customer's unique
requirements. Chose from upgrades to these kits,
including A/C w/ Heat, 1 or 2 Ton BARD Wall Mount HVAC, Vinyl
Coated Wall Panels, Poly Vinyl Floors, additional Windows and Man
Doors.
Of course, if you need a
new or used container, or help with the installation, ModalART is here to
help you.
MODALART SELLS PATENTED CONTAINER LABORATORIES
DESIGNED FOR HYDRO-CARBON EXTRACTION MACHINES IN THE CANNABIS
INDUSTRY
Norwalk,
Connecticut, USA, January 2019
These patented
units were designed and built to house very large ethanol closed
loop extractors. The designers went out of business and ModalART
quickly found a new home for these new state-of-the-art shipping
containers.
MODALART WINS CONTAINER REFURBISHMENT PROJECT FOR THE SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
IN TOKYO, JAPAN, 2020.
Norwalk,
Connecticut, USA, January 2019
Based on its past performance, ModalART
is awarded another project to refurbish thirty shipping containers,
this time for the
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Japan.
This brings the total number
of refurbished, retrofitted, CSC certified, and painted shipping
containers for
Olympic Games to one hundred and
ninety one
SHIPPING CONTAINERS!
ModalART is on schedule to complete the project on budget, and to
the full satisfaction of its customer.
Our customer
supplies drilling fluids to rig sites of the fracking / oil & gas industries, and
to areas ranging from Texas into Canada, and along the Marcellus Shale,
reaching from Pennsylvania into the State of New York.
ModalART was asked
to design a portable 20' container with open side doors, easy forklift access, that would hold two 55' gallon drums or 275
gallon totes stacked two high and two deep. (These width and height
requirements exceed those of a 20' High Cube ISO shipping
container!) Each unit needed to hold sixteen totes.
In addition, any leakages would need to spill
into a secure containment sump that could hold at least 275 gallons. (Our solution
provides for 680 gallons!)
Frequent moves by truck on public
roadways within the US was one of the many other requirements.
MODALART supplies, custom
paints, refurbishes, re-certifies, and retrofits ten new 40' high
cube shipping containers for the 2018 FIFA WORLD CUP
Norwalk,
Connecticut, USA, March 2018
Based on its past performance, ModalART
is awarded another project to supply ten new/one trip, newly
painted, retrofitted, and re-certified shipping containers for
the 2018 FIFA World Football Cup in Russia.
This brings the total number
of refurbished, retrofitted, CSC certified, and painted shipping
containers for international sporting events to one hundred and
SIXTY one
SHIPPING CONTAINERS!
Kiva Microfunds is a
501(c)(3) non-profit organization that allows people to lend
money via the Internet to low-income entrepreneurs and students in
over 80 countries.
Kiva's mission is to connect
people through lending to alleviate poverty.
We loan because:
We want to accelerate global sustainability. We believe that
education leads to self-empowerment, the reduction of poverty, and
the sustainability of human activities.
About us:
ModalART is a green company that repurposes used shipping containers
to reduce our carbon footprint while creating things of beauty.
ModalART introduces QuickBuild
containers, made in Germany, to the US market in order to fill and
complement the gap left by the ongoing shortage of 20' shipping
containers in the USA this year.
MODALART
WINS BIDDING WAR OVER HANJIN BANKRUPTCY ESTATE EQUIPMENT
Norwalk,
Connecticut, USA, Summer 2017
ModalART anticipates the demise of
the world's seventh-largest container shipper back in 2016 and
reserves bids on shipping equipment in Los Angeles, San
Francisco and New York City.
And bang!
Hanjin Shipping Co. Ltd. is declared bankrupt
on
February 2, 2017.
This is the largest bankruptcy in container
shipping in 30 years!
ModalART wins the bidding war on
61 Hanjin shipping containers
on May 22, 2017.
Corks pop in our offices!
17x 40' Standard Height
containers (8'6" tall)
44x 40' High
Cube containers (9'6" tall)"
"We are very proud and excited to win this bid! Yes, we
beat the largest players in the shipping container industry in one of America's
major
container hubs!"
ModalART
accomplishes its mission
in June 2017
to offer
its valued customers the most competitive container prices in the
industry. Within a month,
all standard units are sold and shipped to
Greenland, their final destination.
Keep a lookout
for ModalART/Hanjin shipping containers when you next visit
Greenland!
MODALART WINS CONTAINER REFURBISHMENT PROJECT FOR THE WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES
IN PYEONGCHANG, SOUTH KOREA, 2018.
Norwalk,
Connecticut, USA, Summer 2017
Based on its past performance, ModalART
is awarded another project to refurbish sixty-nine shipping containers,
this time for
the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Games in South Korea.
This brings the total number
of refurbished shipping containers for the Rio and PyeongChang
Olympic Games to one hundred and fifty one
SHIPPING CONTAINERS!
ModalART completed the project on schedule, on budget, and to
the full satisfaction of its customer.
MODALART WINS CONTAINER REFURBISHMENT PROJECT FOR THE SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
IN RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL, 2016.
Stamford,
Connecticut, USA, Summer 2015
ModalART has successfully
completed the refurbishment of eighty-two shipping containers for
the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Our customer used this
equipment to ship valuable telecommunications equipment to
the Olympic Games and needed to ensure that its containers had both
the structural integrity to protect its assets in transit,
and meet the legal requirements of overseas shipping.
ModalART gave these aged containers
a new lease on life by repairing, painting, and
re-certifying them for overseas travel for the next decade.
They were sent to the Olympic
Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Thereafter they will be dispatched to the Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea,
and to Olympic Games beyond.
ModalART completed the project on schedule, on budget, and to
the full satisfaction of its customer.
MODALART SUPPORTS THE ARTS - SPONSORS SHIPPING CONTAINER TO HELP KIDS IN CRISES THROUGH
ART
Norwalk,
Connecticut, USA, Summer 2016
ModalART Shipping Containers
is proud to support the Hilltown Youth Performing
Arts Programs. Children are offered after-school and summer
performing arts programs dedicated to growing the performing arts
and enriching their lives through music, art and theater.
MODALART LAUNCHES HOSPITALITY & EVENT SPACE SOLUTIONS
Stamford, Connecticut, USA, Spring 2015
ModalART's
Italian designed canopies and event spaces are ideal for showcasing
your products and services at major sporting and concert events,
political campaign venues, trade shows, and international
conferences.
They are all
the rage in Europe, where they have been deployed by major
automobile and motorcycle manufacturers.
This is your
unique opportunity to stand out above the corporate crowd in the USA
with the latest state-of-the-art solution for your VIP lounges, ops
headquarters, and product show rooms. Enhance your brand by
impressing your customers and peers!
Our customer owns 82 plus shipping containers in East Granby, Connecticut.
Its units were old, decrepit, and no longer CSC certified for
international shipping. With the Rio 2016 Olympics looming, and the
need to ship its telecommunications equipment abroad, our customer had
to find a reliable shipping container refurbishment company that could repair, paint,
and re-certify its shipping containers to its discerning standards on time.
Moreover, the goal was to give these containers a new lease on life
for another ten plus years so that they could be reused at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter
Olympics, the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, and the Beijing 2022
Winter Olympics.
2) CHALLENGES
Non-negotiable Project Deadline
When many large-scale projects miss their completion dead-line (for
instance, a dam is not completed before the rainy season begins),
the worst consequences are generally limited to budget overruns.
Failure of meeting the final deadline for completion generally does
not equate to the failure of the entire project.
However, when catering to the Olympic games, there is zero margin
for error and delay. The Games will commence on a given date irrespectively. Thus, the success
of this container refurbishment project would be a key element for
ensuring that our customer's telecommunications infrastructure could be
deployed timely for the internationally televised broadcast of the
2016 Rio Games.
Key Deliverables within a Very Tight Time Frame:
Container Integrity:
The physical integrity of the refurbished containers would need
to meet the "Cargo Worthy" grade, or the quality standard that
containers need to meet before steamship lines will move them
overseas.
Certification:
It would be imperative that the refurbished containers be
issued with valid CSC certifications and that the proper decals
and plates be attached to the equipment. CSC is an international
container identification standard administered and monitored by
the Bureau International des Containers (BIC) which
identifies all containers in service and their respective owners
world-wide. Containers without valid CSC markings could simply
not have been permitted to be shipped to Rio.
Location
- Shipping Container "No-Man's Land."
East Granby is located just north of Hartford, Connecticut, and a
hundred plus miles away from any major US shipping ports and
container repair facilities.
This meant that our customer would have had to have its equipment
shipped to Boston or New Jersey for refurbishment and then back to
East Granby at very substantial cost. In fact, the cumulative cost
of repairs and transport could have easily surpassed the cost of
simply purchasing entirely new containers. However, purchasing new
units would have had serious downsides: Our customer would have been
left with 82 surplus containers with no takers, and the prospect of
paying indefinite storage expenses for equipment it did not need.
Faced with this dilemma, our customer turned to ModalART for help in late
2014. ModalART was asked to provide services, and a repair facility
that met all of the below criteria:
Facilities:
Factory building in close proximity to East Granby which is
outfitted with an extensive air filtration system that is in
full compliance with the legal requirements of the Clean Air
Act, and Connecticut building codes pertaining to industrial
manufacturing, and, of course fully licensed and insured;
Expertise:
Operations with extensive industry expertise in shipping
container repair and re-certification capabilities, plus the ability to ramp
up production to guarantee that the final deadlines would be met
without fail.
Staff:
Short and medium-term availability of qualified and experienced personnel
that would be fully dedicated to meeting project deadlines and
capable of meeting customer's discerning quality standards.
3)
SOLUTION AND IMPLEMENTATION
After many months of project planning iterations,
the project processes were structured and mutual
responsibilities of collaboration defined,
an execution plan was laid out; deliverables and project
benchmarks defined, and
the legal framework agreed upon.
ModalART dedicated a plant to this project that not only met, but
even surpassed facility specifications. Just a few miles away
from our customer's warehouse, our factory was geared toward the repair
and modification of reefers (refrigerated containers) and could
render refurbishment services at the highest degree.
The stage was set to have ten units refurbished, and transported to
and fro from our customer's facilities to ModalART's factory on a weekly
basis. In the meantime, ModalART manufactured new container
identification plates in the Midwest that conformed to CSC
standards. They were subsequently attached to the containers and
ensured that our customer's containers had a smooth transit to Rio
and back to the USA.
ModalART completed the entire project on schedule, on budget, and to
the full satisfaction of its customer.
