Shipping Containers Become the Latest Event and Expo Trend

Eat Street Markets, Brisbane’s newest food expo, is using an amazing blend of shipping container to create a vibrant mix of shipping container restaurants, pop up shops, markets, gourmet spaces and much more. Hamilton Wharf, a former industrial area, plays host to the Eat Street Markets on Friday and Saturday evenings. This vibrant dining destination is built from over 50 shipping containers that have been modified to become bars, restaurants, market stalls, produce stores and more. Visitors can stroll through the containerised village atmosphere, meet with friends and experience fabulous food, wine, cocktails, boutique beer and enjoy live entertainment.

Hamilton Wharf is a former shipping container wharf which offers 3 hectares of space on the river in Brisbane’s inner north, an ideal location for the installation. The use of shipping containers answered the need for a creative space with novel architecture while addressing the challenges of security, portability and flexibility. There are many reasons why the innovative use of shipping containers is gaining popularity, from practical to financial and environmental to sustainable – the possibilities are endless. Royal Wolf provided the containers for this initiative. The success of Eat Street has continued to showcase the versatility of modified shipping containers as dining, entertainment and retail spaces. Read how Royal Wolf helped bring Eat Street Northshore to life through the modification of more than 160 shipping containers for restaurants, bars, entertainment spaces and retail outlets. 

Royal Wolf’s range of products and national branch network makes it the ‘go to’ team for solutions ranging from kitchens to kiosks, storage to pop up outlets and a variety of event facility solutions. The company continues to innovate in the events and retail space with AutoWolf, an automated container solution that makes pop-up activations even easier. 

Royal Wolf has developed a multitude of innovative applications from shipping containers. The trend of using shipping containers at events and expo’s is a business solution that is certainly gaining popularity within Australia. Royal Wolf has earned the reputation as the country’s leading events solution expert, with successful events such as Big Day Out, Stereosonic, Soundwave, Food and Wine Festival, V8 Supercars and the Victorian Spring Racing Carnival just to name a few. With an extensive offering to industry and private individuals, it is no surprise that Royal Wolf’s customers continue to call upon them to ensure their challenges are resolved with containers to secure cost effective operational and commercial success.

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