Folding is fast, easy and safe
The HCI Foldable Container is a maritime container, designed to comply with all relevant ISO-standards and CSC-approvals. The container can be used to transport goods via land and sea. The distinguishing feature of this container is that it can be folded when it is empty. This provides a solution for reducing storage space needed to store empty containers. Furthermore it allows users to reduce unproductive transportation of these empty containers. In its folded state, the foldable container occupies ¼ of the volume of a normal container. The folding process is fast, easy and safe. The containers can be stacked together, so that 4 folded containers occupy exactly the same volume of one normal container and this package of 4 folded containers can be handled as one normal container. In the unfolded state the HCI Foldable Container can be used as a normal container.
The HCI Foldable Container is in comparison with other foldable containers designed to be:
• Fast, (un)folding can be done in 10 minutes
• Safe, Complies with ISO and CSC
• Easy, (un)folding can be done by two persons with a forklift truck or a spreader. In future versions the HCI foldable container can be operated both automatically with a spreader (in well-developed ports) and with manual labor and a forklift truck (in less-developed ports).
• Strong, a HCI Foldable Container always remains in one piece. Despite its slightly higher weight, it can be stacked up to 9 containers with full payload. The HCI Foldable Container is made from the same standard material of a standard container, making it easy to maintain with standard parts all over the world.
