Last Tuesday we visited a company called CONTERM. Conterm offers depot and repair services to the other companies that use containers. It is located in Montreal at the industrial park. It is a small company with large responsibilities.

When a truck comes in carrying a container that need to be fixed. The container is inspected for all damages and registered in the system at the gates.

Here is a container in repair shop

After the repair, it has to be repainted. But you cannot just use any color. Each company has its own color. For instance a company such as Hapag-lloyd uses orange color on its container. This is the room in which each container would go through after the repair shop. After the painting all the information written on the container have to be put back again.

This company is not just repair container, based on the request of clients sometimes it transforms containers into a store instrument.

Walking through the containers yard

The challenge in this business at this time is that Chine is able to produce containers at the cheap price compare to our companies. Because the material needed are cheaper in China. Here is a one bedroom that was made from a container of 53 footer high cube.

Take a look inside. It is beautiful and it costs only $35,000.

Here we were learning how to open up a container. You might think that is easy, but it is not.

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