Containers offer a shipping method for small businesses that reduces theft, keeps the shipping load traveling together as a unit, and minimizes the likelihood of losing part of the cargo when shipped ...

Container ships are the pack mules of global trade, and journalist Rose George's new book, Ninety Percent of Everything, is the latest look at how the steel boxes full of solids, liquids, and gases ...

The container ship Istanbul Bridge completed loading its final container at Berth 7 of the Beiyi Container Terminal in Ningbo-Zhoushan Port, East China's Zhejiang Province, on Monday. It will depart ...

Shipping containers aren't much more than steel boxes. But they have become increasingly valuable during the worldwide supply chain crisis. At any time, there are some 30 million shipping containers ...

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