Today, there are roughly 36 million shipping containers in the world, and on any given day, there are between five and six million shipping containers on the high seas.As you can see from looking at the Gateway Gazette, shipping containers aren’t just used to store and transport goods and possessions these days! Thanks to architects and engineers seeing the great potential of them as building blocks, containers have been used in a variety of ways in recent times from mobile offices to apartment blocks, and even mansions. One of the main reasons for this is that the shipping container is almost infinitely customisable.