Out-of-the-box idea for container hotel in Singapore

Island-wide ambitions: Seah dreams of having 50 container hotels spread across 20 locations in Singapore. — The Straits Times/ANN

REPURPOSED shipping containers could make for unusual hotels in surprising locations, say, on Coney Island, or the Marina Barrage overlooking the National Day Parade fireworks.

Depending on how his first two container hotels do at one-north in December, entrepreneur Seah Liang Chiang dreams of having 50 spread across 20 locations island-wide, and eventually popping up in Malaysia and Indonesia.