Shipping containers are so common they often blend into the background, but these humble 20 (or 40)-foot metal boxes are a recent invention, and we can thank (or curse) them for creating the modern ...

Three shipping containers remain missing more than two weeks after they fell overboard and started washing up on the West ...

Down an inconspicuous side road in the Penobscot County city of Old Town, in a large but unremarkable former truck garage, big things are going on for the global shipping industry. A startup called ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin The global container shipping industry is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few large ...

Russ Lewis has picked up some strange things along the coast of Long Beach Peninsula in Washington state over the years: Hot Wheels bicycle helmets with feather tufts, life-size plastic turkey decoys ...

At any given moment, upwards of 250 million containers of raw materials and finished goods are traveling by sea to bustling ports worldwide, making efficient container management a critical ingredient ...

We typically associate MVRDV with high-profile projects like the Valley and Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, but its Klabu sees the firm experimenting with shipping container-based architecture and ...

Shipping containers that are lost at sea can pose a number of different unseen hazards across oceans and land, a new report from The Associated Press (AP) revealed. On Thursday, the AP published a ...

Malcolm McLean may be the most important person you’ve never heard of. His claim to fame? Inventing a box. But not just any box. McLean—a high school-educated truck driver from North Carolina—came up ...