If you were to list inventions that most affect your life, shipping containers likely would not make the top ten. However, these simple metal storage boxes play a crucial role in transporting close to ...

Take a look around you. Perhaps you’re snacking on a banana, sipping some coffee or sitting in front of your computer and taking a break from work to read this article. Most likely, those goods – as ...

Millions — perhaps tens of millions — of shipping containers are sitting empty at ports all over the world. And they've been a treasure trove for architects Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano. "We found ...

Images of steel shipping containers interlinked at the seams, creating what looks like a beehive for humans, started capturing the real estate community's attention a decade ago. "I have worked on ...

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 ...