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 ...

Container loading and packing optimisation constitute a critical area of research in logistics and supply chain management, focussing on the efficient arrangement of items within containers to ...

More than a year and a half after the final ship sailed following a bitter labor dispute at Oregon’s only international container terminal, container ship service is poised to return to the Port of ...

This article was taken from the November 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...