Marriott Shipped from China. The 150-room hotel was unloaded from a cargo ship in Helguvík harbor on the Reykjanes peninsula, Southwest Iceland, and is being assembled a short distance from Keflavík International Airport, This is a new Marriott Courtyard hotel, made up of 78 steel units from China.
Each module, which is processed and renovated in an indoor factory in Guangdong, was shipped from the factory in June 2019, sailing 50 days at sea via container ship from South China through the Malacca Strait, across the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and all the way north to the port of Iceland.
At this time, public areas such as the lobby, restaurant, and parking lot on the ground floor of the hotel are in place with a traditional steel structure. With each module fully furnished, the hotel’s construction is 90% complete, and all that is left is to connect the modules according to the detailed installation guide and instructions from the Chinese production director on site, add the exterior decoration then the 156-room hotel is complete.
It is the first steel modular hotel project in the Icelandic region by CIMC Modular Building Investment Company Limited (“CIMC Modular Building”)中集模块化建筑投资有限公司 http://www.cimc-mbs.com/ who has exported more than 70 modular hotels overseas.