In the 1950s, trucking magnate Malcom McLean changed the world when he got frustrated enough with the speed of trucking and traffic to start a commercial shipping company in order to move goods up and ...

The return of container vessels to the Suez Canal - Red Sea route is likely to have a profound impact on the sector, ...

Ocean freight rates from China to the U.S. East Coast surpassed $10,000 per 40-foot container for the first time since July ...

From pandemic disturbances to Red Sea tensions, the story of container freight rates in the 2020s is one of fragility. In mid-2024, rates rose to multi-year highs, pushed by a confluence of global ...

Shipping containers are typically quite large, in excess of 40 feet, and can be used to ship goods by land, sea or, occasionally, air. Purchasing a shipping container can be quite costly; if you will ...

Container freight rates maintained a flat trend for the second consecutive week. While rates for routes to the Americas and ...

The cost of moving goods around the world is surging as wars, bad weather and spiralling diesel prices propel shipping fees ...

Shipping containers and shipping cases include bags, boxes, buckets, barrels, ISO containers, crates, trunks, and other vessels for transporting materials. Some shipping containers are ISO or ...

The rugged, square iron boxes you see at the port—shipping containers. When you look at them, mere tools of logistics, what ...

Shipping containers in Helsingborg, Sweden. Courtesy of Håkan Dahlström/Flickr Roman Mars’ podcast 99% Invisible covers design questions large and small, from his fascination with rebar to the history ...

The off-contract ocean container shipping rate from China to the U.S. East Coast has returned to levels seen after COVID-19 ...

Shipping containers are now such a thing that in Denmark, they are putting them in glass cases. I have had a troubled relationship with shipping containers since I was ten, when my dad went into the ...