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gaadd33 on May 26, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Whitewood Under Siege: Wooden Shipping Pallets

Aren't shipping containers steel all around? They do have wooden flooring though, but under that is steel from what I understand.

msandford on May 27, 2014 [–]

I'm not around shipping containers day-in and day-out but I don't believe they are. There's SOME metal down there to hold them together but as I understand it they're purposefully not 100% so that if something spills it doesn't pool in the bottom.

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