To open a shipping container, make sure your lock is off from under the lock box (if that applies), containers will usually come with 2 corten steel doors (bespoke container conversions may be different) on the doors there will be 4no. locking bars 2no. on each door (some containers may have less locking bars and different configuration) the double doors open right side first. Make sure the locking laspes are rotated out the way of the locking bar handles and using the handles on the right-side door light out the of the locking bars handle mounts. Start by slowly pulling the locking bar handles toward yourself and the door will start to open. Once the right-hand door is open repeat the process to open the left-hand door.
To close the doors on a shipping container, close the left-hand door first making sure the locking bars go into their locking keepers at the top and the bottom of the container. Using the far locking bar first start to tighten up and the door will close up and it means the second locking bar will start to get into position to be closed. Once in position tighten up both locking bars on the left door and put the handles into the mounts and close the locking lapses. The door is now closed. Repeat the process to close the right-hand door. Lock the container using the lock in the lock box (if that applies) or using a standard lock you can lock it on the locking lapse and locking handle meaning the locking bars are unable to turn and open with the lock on.
Watch our how-to video to see how to open and close shipping container doors here.