Canarian Container Anorak

[popeye]

Nice weather and nice weathering 

[Mol_PMB]

53 minutes ago, popeye said:

Nice weather and nice weathering 

Haha! And I did indeed take some photos to illustrate different types of weathering and damage on the boxes. They get some rough treatment! 

[popeye]

Very useful as the tops are not seen so much. 

[MOGUL]

On 13/6/2026 at 1:14 PM, Mol_PMB said:

Some unusual containers for you - I think these are 20’ x 9’6” bulkers loaded with a mineral of some sort. 
They looked heavy when being craned on board my home for the next 10 days, and went low down in the hold. 
Not Canarian though, I’m in Hull. 

Those 20ft Bulk containers carry either lime or limestone for use in the steel industry. I can't recall the source for that, but I think it may have been from an article about Sun line in a shipping magazine a few years ago now. 

 

 

 

[Mol_PMB]

Just now, MOGUL said:

Those 20ft Bulk containers carry either lime or limestone for use in the steel industry. I can't recall the source for that, but I think it may have been from an article about Sun line in a shipping magazine a few years ago now. 

 

 

 

Since photographing them I was able to get a copy of the cargo manifest (we had some on board) and I’ll check it later. 
9’6” high 20” containers are scarce. 

[MOGUL]

58 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

Since photographing them I was able to get a copy of the cargo manifest (we had some on board) and I’ll check it later. 
9’6” high 20” containers are scarce. 

Don't forget to share the manifest with the rest of us, always interesting to actually see what's really inside the boxes!

HC 20fts are indeed rare, although they seem to be common down @DJ Dangerous neck of the woods on the Iberian trade, and I saw my first Boluda 20ft HC on the M50 last weekend. Boluda only started serving Ireland(via a vessel share with Samskip) about 2 years ago now. 20ft bulkers aren't unknown though, with the BLS chemical logistics(and unit branded unit20) ones a common site on IWT liners from about 2012 onwards. Those are 9ft high though, rather than 9ft 6. 

 

[Mol_PMB]

22 hours ago, MOGUL said:

Don't forget to share the manifest with the rest of us, always interesting to actually see what's really inside the boxes!

I'm not sure I should share the details of the individual containers, there's probably some commercial confidentiality there. But I can summarise:

1. I don't have details for the containers which only went from Hull to Amsterdam.

2. Hull - Vasteras:

Loads in the 45HCPW and 40HCPW included: 

• Waste
• Whisky
• Beer
• Wines

And in the 20' HC bulks:

• Dolomite

Also there were steel billets and bars not in containers, loaded the traditional way.

3. Amsterdam - Vasteras:

Loads in the 45HCPW and 40HCPW included: 

• Wines / Sparkling Wines (800 tonnes of wine in total)
• Gin
• Soy Sauce
• Food Preparations
• Motor Oils
• Wiping Rags
• Blasting Grit
• Cat Litter
• Pet Food

And in the 20' HC bulks:

• Ferro Silicon

4. Vasteras - Hull:

Loads in the 45HCPW and 40HCPW included: 

• Cider (2000 tonnes of Rekordelig!)
• Bale Pulp
• Ammonium
• Sylvalite
• Nonwoven

And in the 20' HC bulks:

• mostly empty
• some labelled 'keep dry' and heavy, but not sure what was in them.

Also there were bundles of sawn timber, and steel coils, not in containers, loaded the traditional way.

 

[DJ Dangerous]

On 23/6/2026 at 2:19 PM, MOGUL said:

HC 20fts are indeed rare, although they seem to be common down @DJ Dangerous neck of the woods on the Iberian trade, and I saw my first Boluda 20ft HC on the M50 last weekend. Boluda only started serving Ireland(via a vessel share with Samskip) about 2 years ago now. 20ft bulkers aren't unknown though, with the BLS chemical logistics(and unit branded unit20) ones a common site on IWT liners from about 2012 onwards. Those are 9ft high though, rather than 9ft 6. 

 

Yeah, the HC 20’ boxes are the mainstay down here. The baby height ones are rare as rocking horse shit.

 

On 22/6/2026 at 8:30 PM, popeye said:

Very useful as the tops are not seen so much. 

Well, you say that…

 

On 27/12/2022 at 10:44 PM, popeye said:

I think that just about covers it, but you missed the roofs. 

 

On 28/12/2022 at 8:19 AM, JasonB said:

Don't encourage him. He'll be out with a ladder the next time. 

 

On 29/12/2022 at 11:13 AM, DJ Dangerous said:

 

By special request, I stumbled up the little hill behind the reefer and climbed onto a little wall thing, just for you...

CMA CGM reefer parked off the TF1 at the Chio roundabout, and a Transatlantica box in Chio that looks like it's been repurposed to house a generator or something.