Abstract: A novel shipping container, package, and method of packaging are provided for facilitating the packaging, shipment and storage of heavy, bulky, and deformable endless belts. The shipping container includes top and bottom members which cooperatively engage each other to provide an interior hollow chamber. Interposed wall portions are provided in the bottom member which extend at an angle between the side walls and bottom wall of the bottom member. The side walls and interposed wall portions of the bottom member cooperate with portions of an endless belt positioned in the container to ensure that the belt maintains its substantially cylindrical configuration during transportation or storage in order to avoid the damaging effects to the belt which result from its collapse within a conventional container.