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 ...

Advanced Steel Recovery, a Fontana, Calif.-based scrap recycling company, has been looking at ways to increase the amount of ferrous scrap exported via containers. Nathan Frankel, president of ASR, ...

Bill Tigner, president of U.S. Shredder & Castings Group, based in Trussville, Ala., says if a yard is loading containers with equipment that produces less than desired tonnage or takes more than 30 ...

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 ...

Classification society the Korean Register (KR) has published guidance outlining the technical measures necessary to safely load and carry containers on bulk cargo ships amid the current sustained ...

Like many entrepreneurs, Nathan Frankel sees money where others see nothing. In the last five years, he has built a $15-million-a-year business selling scrap metal from abandoned appliances, assembly ...

UAE MEA Less-Than-Container Load (LCL) Shipping Market held a 33.8% share and generated USD 1.2 billion in 2024. The country's dominance is rooted in its advanced logistics capabilities, modern port ...

Ah, the unassuming shipping container. It's really nothing more than a big steel box with a couple of doors. At any given time, millions of containers are piled on ships plying the world's waterways.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) says it now delivers application load balancing for containers. The load balancing news comes as part of AWS’s move to make it easier for its customers to use containers. To ...