The Doug Ford government is aiming to slap restrictions on floating homes that are provoking controversy in Ontario's cottage country. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry cites "an increase ...

It's a cheap and eco-friendly way to live in one of the most expensive cities in the world. Urban Riggers, a company in Denmark, has developed student housing out of old shipping containers, ...

Anchored at the Severn marina in southern Ontario's cottage country are two 53-foot-long shipping containers. They're the home of Joe Nimens — and the model for the year-round floating cottages he'd ...

Maritime experts from Edinburgh Napier University’s Transport Research Institute (TRI) have unveiled a plan to develop a floating container port for Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands. They estimate ...

Here is all you need to know about the banana container incident so far. The containers fell overboard from the Baltic Klipper on 6 December in choppy seas off the coast of Bembridge. No crew members ...

Since April of last year, Joe Nimens and his girlfriend, Erin Morano, have been living full-time on a floating shipping container vessel of his own making on the Trent-Severn Waterway.

It may not be a country cottage or a smart high-rise apartment but a home in a floating metal box may be the answer to low-cost housing. One man from Bedford has creating his dream house in a metal ...