Holyhead giant shipping container storage park opening close to A55

Giant shipping containers are being trucked into a new major storage park close to the A55 in Holyhead.

Lock Stock Self-Storage has created the new storage centre in the port town, its first location on Anglesey.

It will contain more than 100 shipping containers ranging in size from compact ten footers to giant 40 foot long units weighing more than four tons.

It brings the total number of storage parks run by Denbigh-based Lock Stock up to 18.

The containers are being trucked onto the site by lorry and it follows the recent opening of a 120-container park at Felin Puleston, Wrexham.

Lock Stock operations manager Stuart Bowker said: “We have been keen to open on Anglesey for some time after receiving plenty of enquiries from potential customers here.

“We like to grow the business organically, responding to a local need and demand, identifying a suitable site and then preparing it so that it is neat and tidy and well laid out in time for the opening.

“That’s a benefit for our customers as their storage containers are easily accessible 24/7 and secure.”

Lock Stock paint their containers a uniform dark green and use computer-aided design for the optimum layout for each of their sites.

Their sites feature security fencing and lighting while the Chinese-made steel containers are insulated and watertight and have arrived in the UK from the Far East on a one-way ocean voyage carrying imported goods from China.

The latest opening is part of a major expansion in Lock Stock’s new and existing sites which has seen it open three new storage parks, Holyhead, Wrexham and Flint, in the past 12 months and expand at four of its other sites, at Llandudno, Bangor, Mold and Oswestry.