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The logistics industry as a whole is slow to embrace digital change, yet container shipping has been especially reluctant to dispense with analog methods. Complex decisions on empty-container moves ...

Congestion levels at ports in mainland China have increased between 30-40% since March. High rates on shipping routes departing Asia combined with port delays incentivises carriers returning with ...

Editor’s note: This article was written before a large container ship blocked traffic on the Suez Canal for several days, causing further, if temporary, disruption to global shipping and container ...

In our latest proof that global capitalism is extremely logical and efficient, hundreds of thousands of completely empty shipping containers are being transported overseas amid the pandemic, according ...

The transportation of cargo around the world is routine business for the shipping industry, but delivering about 11 billion tons of goods a year is a process that is fraught with risk. Lost containers ...

Of the many supply chain headaches brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, shipping container backlogs were arguably one of the worst. A record 109 bottlenecked ships were documented by the ...

Container ships are an astonishing feat of human innovation and engineering. Their size, weight, and capability to carry gargantuan loads of cargo across large expanses of the ocean have ...

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 ...