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 ...

Dockyard has proven itself as a viable alternative port to Hamilton’s docks — although strong winds hampered the offloading of containers yesterday for safety reasons. The West End prepared at short ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea said on Tuesday that 94 out of 97 Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd's <117930.KS> container ships have completed unloading as of Nov. 7. Of the remaining 3 ships, two ships will be ...

LONG BEACH (CBSLA) - The city of Long Beach has announced that they will relax the current set of rules they have in place as far as container stacking goes. In an effort to ease the current backlog ...

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 ...

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