Looking at Standardisation Will Help Our Mindsets During COVID-19

Take a look at any one of our sea-container rentals in E14, and you’ll notice something. They’re the same, and that’s because they’re designed – and have been for decades now – to standardised measurements, parameters that are globally adhered to in the world of trade and freight. The team here at Store That E14, who know how hard the majority of the country is working, wanted to talk a little about how some perspective is going to help us through, and how shipping containers help with that! 

A Perfect Fit for The Bigger Picture

Missing the final piece in a jigsaw is the most infuriating thing on the planet. Well, OK that might be a little of an exaggeration but a missing piece causes the whole puzzle to look wrong, it’s incomplete and, more importantly, will never be complete. The way shipping containers are ordered and stacked on a freight ship is very much the same, they come together, snugly packed, like a big game of Tetris. For a pandemic exit-strategy ever to manifest, the foundations need to be complete, it’s as simple as that. The puzzle needs to have all the pieces and the shipping containers need to all be stacked correctly. You may not have thought of our sea-container rentals in E14 in that light before, but you will now. Everyone currently is like one of those puzzle pieces, one of those shipping containers. Everybody has a crucial part to play, and looking at it in this way, imagining yourself as a cog within a bigger machine may give you that extra bit of resilience.

Collective Responsibility

These unprecedented times don’t call for individualism, they call for the exact opposite. They require a sense of collective, social responsibility in order to see us through to greener pastures on the other side. Standardisation in sea container units has meant that world trade has been able to flourish and thrive. In today’s shipping world, if just one container doesn’t meet these standardised measurements, then it throws the whole operation out of kilter. Here at Store That E14, we think that’s a pertinent analogy to make at the minute.

So, if you’d like to find out more about our self-storage in Canary Wharf for when this has all blown over, then get in touch! Contact Store That E14 today on 020 7515 1300.