Today the humble shipping container is everywhere: 10 million of them arrived at U.S. ports in 2016 alone. Pexels/Pixabay On April 26, 1956, a crane lifted 58 aluminum truck bodies onto the deck ...

Ship carrying giant container cranes docks ... loading of ships at the port, the cranes will be the tallest ever at the port with a lift height of 174 feet above the dock and a reach across a ship ...

Shipping docks are ground zero ... tariff regime affected the economics of one container ship full of goods that recently arrived at the Port of Long Beach. The OOCL Violet began loading in ...

The COSCO Development, the largest container ship ever to call on the U.S. East Coast, arrived at Georgia Ports Authority’s Garden City Terminal Thursday morning, ushering in a new era of big ...

Shipping containers sit stacked at a port in Bayonne, N.J., on Oct. 15. Supply chain problems are disrupting the global economy, causing delays and a shortage of containers.

Globalization is having an anniversary. It was 50 years ago that Malcom McLean, an entrepreneur from North Carolina, loaded a ship with 58 35-foot containers and sailed from Newark, N.J., to ...

When the ship arrives in the port, that container will be moved to the dock and loaded aboard the ship. The loading process is very much computer-driven. Each container is designated to go at a ...

The Container Helped Create The Modern Economy. Indeed, few inventions of the past 100 years have touched so many lives as the container. Anyone who makes a purchase on Amazon or steps inside a ...

The state’s only shipping container service will close in October after Port of Portland officials say a deal with a third party operator fell through. Officials say that lease would have been a ...