When the Ever Given became stuck in the Suez Canal in 2021, the BBC reported, it prevented approximately 12% of the world's trade from passing through. The Ever Given itself had a capacity for 20,000 ...

Products used by consumers and businesses often get to their final destinations as freight shipped in standardized cargo containers. Manufacturers of these shipping containers adhere to ...

McLean’s solution was to create a standardized metal cargo container that could be stacked aboard ships and transferred ...

Cargo: The Long Beach Container Terminal. (Photo by Thom Wasper) The cargo slide continues in the San Pedro Bay, but it probably won’t be enough to offset an otherwise prolific first half of the year.

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 ...