They’re just a big metal box, but they’ve revolutionized the transportation world in the last few decades, enabling global trade at unimaginable levels and changing all of our lives. The story of the ...

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 ...

The shipping container is a logistics marvel that can affordably move thousands of items from hundreds of different companies all around the globe. If there is a slowdown in shipping-container ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...