The design may include some small holes in the lowest parts of at least two walls to let liquid run out if stored outdoors in rain or after washing.

If the bottom is formed by a grid, too, air may flow easily through even stacked boxes to keep bakery dry or allow quick cooling.

Euro-containers mounted on the rear rack of a bicycle or small motorcycle are widely used by newspaper-deliverers in Austrian towns[citation needed].

A Euro-container fits between the frame tubes in the low transportation bay of the Danish freight bike Bullitt.

The 400×300-millimetre sizes and stacking height were adopted in the early 1990s for inter-stacking Systainer boxes.