What are the challenges in crossing the Pacific Ocean by boat? How much hardware would be involved with making individual containers seaworthy? Disposable cargo ships, anyone?

Hmm. If anybody is sitting on an idea that needs used shipping containers, now might be the time to pick some up.

I looked into using them for construction as I am building a office / workshop, roughly the size of two 20ft shipping containers. As much as it may be glamourised on social media, it has a lot of limitations.

In my case it's actually cheaper and much more flexible to build it as you would a traditional building. I live 300 miles from the nearest port, so that doesn't help. I also looked into the container sized temporary buildings used on construction site, and they are made from scratch (not from old shipping containers).

Shipping containers are very useful for shipping and not very useful for much else.

I’ve seen businesses use them for stationary storage. I’ve assumed they use discarded containers that can no longer take the stress of freight. But yeah in general you’re right.

This would make a great "have a heart" trap for large animals.