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The Rena losing containers as heavy swells wash her deck on the starboard side on 12 October 2011.
On 5 October 2011 the MSC-chartered, Liberian-flagged container ship Rena astonished local mariners by grounding on the clearly marked Astrolabe Reef in the Bay of Plenty. Some fear New Zealand's worst maritime environmental disaster is in the making.
Shipping containers used by Wellington City Council to launch their 2040 strategy.
A ‘40-foot’ (12.19 m) long shipping container
After the Christchurch earthquake of 22 February 2011 authorities found a wide range of uses for shipping containers
Ministry for Agriculture and Fisheries inspector checks a shipping container on a train
The three storey shipping container house at 173 Happy Valley Road, Wellington
Container serving as a storage unit in suburban Newtown
This container houses a museum display about waterfront history.
Container filled with concrete used to stop erosion
Ports too small to justify the expense of gantry cranes use wheeled mobile container cranes
International cross-traders container ship, MSC Hobart in 2009
Two generations of container cranes at Wellington
How container shipping has affected Port Chalmers
The Tolaga Bay, New Zealand Pacific and Mairangi Bay lined Wellington’s Aotea Quay. 
The bad old days: stowing frozen carcasses in one of the Port Caroline’s refrigerated holds. Even in such a gleaming new ship, it was cold, hard work and could be dangerous as well. The Port Caroline was constructed in 1968; this image is from 1971.
The Columbus New Zealand, the first all-container ship to visit New Zealand, at Beach Street Wharf, Port Chalmers
Links and books related to container shipping
Most containers pass through the hands of an entire new industry that has arisen to modify containers for other uses or to sell or lease them. In response, architects have coined the term ‘container architecture’ to cover this expanding field.
Containers changed everything. Railways ordered fleets of flat deck rolling stock and ‘daylighted’ tiny Victorian tunnels to get them through. Truckers bought heavy duty vehicles and new businesses sprung up to store, clean and repair containers. In warehouses and loading docks all around the country, heavy forklift trucks lifted boxes on and off vehicles.

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