The shipping container business model that promises to ease U.S. agricultural export woes just expanded to several states, including California, Maryland, Ohio, Illinois, and Georgia. What started in the U.S. in New Jersey after getting off the ground in Germany, continues to expand.

Eveon Containers began in Europe in 2020 to bring transparency and more economical prices to the need for shipping containers to move product around the world.

"Despite there being 45 million containers globally, there's been an increasing scarcity of commercial containers due to various circumstances," said Eveon founder Aad Storm in a recent statement. "Eveon Containers is easing the supply bottleneck of the looming retail and agricultural seasons by purchasing unused and used containers to make them immediately available to customers, something that is rarely done in our industry."

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U.S. agricultural markets have been stymied by the inability to secure shipping containers for their goods. Instead, maritime shipping companies – they own the bulk of the shipping containers worldwide – have prioritized empty containers for quick shipment to Asia where they can collect top dollar for exports coming back to the United States and elsewhere.

Customers can choose whether to collect containers themselves the next day after payment, according to a company statement. Eveon also offers regional delivery that allows customers to have an empty container delivered in up to three days within a significant radius of city hubs. Customers within 200 miles of Oakland, Calif., 300 miles of Chicago, Ill., 200 miles of Cleveland, Ohio, or 200 miles of Savannah, Ga., can take delivery of empty containers within three days.

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Eveon offers three new and used container variants: 20-foot, 40-foot, and 40-foot high-cubes. Refrigerated containers are not currently offered. Customers can immediately see product and transportation costs on Eveon's website at https://www.eveoncontainers.com/en-us.