Container

From Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic Official Wiki

Background

Cargo containers play a pivotal role in global trade, facilitating the transportation of goods across vast distances. These standardized steel boxes come in various sizes, with the most common being the 20-foot and 40-foot containers. They are designed to withstand the rigors of maritime, rail, and road transportation, ensuring the safety and security of their contents.

Cargo containers are constructed to meet strict industry standards, ensuring uniformity in dimensions and structural integrity. They provide efficient storage, stacking, and handling capabilities, enabling seamless transfers between different modes of transportation. Equipped with sturdy doors and weatherproof seals, containers protect goods from the elements during transit, enhancing their reliability.

While containers differ in capacity, they generally have a maximum weight limit of around 30 tons. They are often stacked on ships and transported in groups, forming the basis of the intermodal shipping system. Containerization has revolutionized global trade, enabling efficient loading, tracking, and unloading of cargo, and has become an indispensable part of the modern logistics landscape.

Gameplay

General

Transporting resources is a key element in the game Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic. Resources can be transported with different kind of road vehicles and over longer distances with trains, ships and airplanes are more suitable. The resources to transport is delivered to a appropriate unloading station and commonly stored in a warehouse before it's loaded for further transport. Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic provides another way of packing and distributing resources, containers.

If the player wants to make use of transportation with containers the player needs to build the Container loading facility. Resources are delivered to the Container loading facility where they can be stored in the limited internal storage. Workers will pack the resources into containers and the packed containers are parked at the storage area. The containers can be picked up from there and transported to a Customs house where the goods are exported across the border.
The player can also decide to take the packed container to a Container unloading facility. This facility unpacks resources from the container and stores the resources in the internal storage of the Container unloading facility or to an optional connected external warehouse.

There are several kind of containers each with a different capacity and configurable from the Container loading facility properties window.

358 10' containers can be stored at the Container loading facility, after that the storage capacity can be extended with an external storage. If the player would like to extend the storage capacity the player needs to build connect and the Space for vehicles/containers.

Containers

Type Weight Cargo capacity Start End Origin Note
Covered 10.png
Dry container 10'
0 t General cargo
6.4tCrops, 5.6tFabric, 4.0tAlcohol, 4.0tFood,
4.0tClothes, 4.0tMechanical components, 3.2tExplosives, 2.8tLivestock,
2.8tElectronics, 2.8tElectronic components, 2.4tChemicals, 2.0tPlastics
1950 Present East.png
Czechoslovakia
Covered 20.png
Dry container 20'
2 t General cargo
15tCrops, 13tFabric, 9.8tAlcohol, 9.8tFood,
9.8tClothes, 9.8tMechanical components, 7.8tExplosives, 6.8tLivestock,
6.8tElectronics, 6.8tElectronic components, 5.9tChemicals, 4.9tPlastics
1950 Present East.png
Czechoslovakia
Covered 40.png
Dry container 40'
3 t General cargo
23tCrops, 20tFabric, 14tAlcohol, 14tFood,
14tClothes, 14tMechanical components, 11tExplosives, 10tLivestock,
10tElectronics, 10tElectronic components, 8.8tChemicals, 7.3tPlastics
1950 Present East.png
Czechoslovakia

Notes

  • Container loading/unloading facilities need workers.
  • Containers can be transported via Open hull trucks.

Structures related to Containers

Loading/unloading

Name Cost Workers Consumption Energy Wattage Storage Structure Notes
Tool container packing.png
Container loading facility
Workdays 2784 Workdays, Concrete 21t Concrete,

Gravel 16t Gravel, Asphalt 13t Asphalt,
Bricks 189t Bricks, Boards 63t Boards,
Steel 47t Steel

60 Water 1.20 m3/day Water 3.0 MWh 50 kW Area: 235 m2,
Height 4m
Access 1x road access
2x footpath
6x factory connection
L/U 3
Tool container unpacking.png
Container unloading facility
Workdays 3723 Workdays, Concrete 91t Concrete,

Gravel 70t Gravel, Asphalt 56t Asphalt,
Bricks 196t Bricks, Boards 65t Boards,
Steel 51t Steel

60 Water 1.20 m3/day Water 3.0 MWh 50 kW Area: 235 m2,
Height 4m
Access 1x road access
2x footpath
6x factory connection
L/U 3

Storages

Name Cost Station length Energy Wattage Parking spots for vehicles Structure Notes
Tool spaceforvehicles big.png
Space for vehicles/containers (large)
Workdays 561 Workdays, Concrete 3.1t Concrete,

Gravel 2.3t Gravel, Asphalt 1.9t Asphalt,
Steel 18t Steel, Mechanical components 3.9t Mechanical components,

100 17 MWh 299 kW 1 Access 1x road access
2x rail connection
4x factory connection
L/U 2
Tool spaceforvehicles small.png
Space for vehicles/containers (small)
Workdays 265 Workdays, Concrete 3.9t Concrete,

Gravel 3.0t Gravel, Asphalt 2.4t Asphalt,
Steel 7.7t Steel, Mechanical components 1.6t Mechanical components,

- 7.2 MWh 120 kW 1 Access 1x road access
5x factory connection
L/U 2