ok now that we have a vague idea of some of the elements involved within the spectrum of shipping containers, one asks what’s next?

-buy some shipping containers
-understand how to ship with shipping containers from a German perspective
-be aware of the terrorist threat that shipping containers hold in our "borderless world"
-reflect on the play on shipping containers as data packets
-decide whether the purpose of container[s] areis for a cargo, travel, work, promotion, media container, living or industrial space
rethink if you are going to architect the containers or go to the playa
-realize that people have been doing this pre-fab thing since the seventies : ninjas already been known about shipping containers so there are —-other options
-build that! and make a statement?!

With privatization, "the public agency that actually owns the port is guaranteed rent, and there’s a higher level of security for everybody in the chain," Mr. Levinson said. "This was a response to the riskiness of what is a very, very capital-intensive business."

from
Dynamist.com: How container shipping changed the global economy, Economic Scene by Virgina Postrel