Much of what we all consume or own today arrived here in a shipping container. These large steel boxes have become the vehicle by which virtually everything that isn’t shipped in bulk like oil, coal ...

Two large shipping containers, stamped with the words “Contains: Guided Missile,” were discovered in the Pacific Ocean near Alaska Sunday. Alaska State Troopers said the containers were empty, and ...

This article originally appeared on The Revelator. You’re right if you think you’ve been hearing a lot about container ships lately. One off the coast of Sri Lanka that was carrying 25 tons of nitric ...

A cargo ship operated by A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S lost several hundred containers in the Pacific Ocean while sailing through heavy seas from China to Los Angeles, the latest in a spate of incidents in ...

Hundreds of containers have fallen from container ships into ocean waters in recent months, in a flare-up of accidents that can destroy millions of dollars worth of goods, damage vessels and endanger ...

Container lines have lost thousands of boxes overboard since late 2020. Most of the losses have occurred on ships operating between the US and Asia. The incidents add to the logistics chaos driving up ...

An ocean container capacity crunch has hit global trade just as peak shipping season starts, with freight spot rates up some 30% over the past few weeks and heading higher. Bad weather, longer ocean ...

Container shipments account for 90% of world trade and are growing at a 5% compound annual rate -- with 14 containers entering U.S. ports every minute. At present 95% of these containers are not ...

Much of what we use in our daily lives, other than food, gets imported, and 90-95% of that comes by sea, passing offshore through our ocean backyard. Petroleum and petroleum products are a big ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Creation of Lake Michigan’s first international container terminal serving the Chicago area is underway since U.S. Customs and Border ...

The Georgia Ports Authority board on Monday approved a plan to renovate docks at its Ocean Terminal in Savannah to handle more container traffic, creating flexibility to grow over the next eight to 10 ...

Qamar Schuyler receives funding from the Australian Packaging Covenent, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), and the National Environmental Science Programme (NESP).