Container vessels form the backbone of world trade, moving goods across oceans and continents. These vessels are specially ...

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 ...

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As Bangladesh’s annual monsoon season kicks into gear, heavy rainfall and rough sea conditions have disrupted unloading of imported containers at the outer anchorage of Chattogram Port for three days.

[This article was first published in Army Sustainment Professional Bulletin, which was then called Army Logistician, volume 2, number 2 (March–April 1970), pages 16–22.] A SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER of big, ...

As FedEx Corp. and UPS Inc. beef up automation to keep pace with surging e-commerce and a potential threat from Amazon.com, they’ve been stumped at a crucial stage: loading and unloading trucks. Robot ...