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 ...

A product developed by Greg Bushong of X-Body Equipment called the Acculoader, targets efficient loading of either 20-foot or 40-foot containers destined for export shipments. Bushong says that with ...

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 ...

The BPS Container Loading System from Best Process Solutions Inc. (BPS), Brunswick, Ohio, is engineered to load 20-foot and 40-foot shipping containers quickly and efficiently with ferrous and ...

Container loading and packing optimisation constitute a critical area of research in logistics and supply chain management, focussing on the efficient arrangement of items within containers to ...

The contrat is with Tecnimont SpA, main EPC subsidiary of the Maire Tecnimont Group, Italy, for delivery to an end customer in the petrochemical industry in the United Arab Emirates. The system is the ...

OAKLAND, Calif. & FLENSBURG, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Navis, the leading provider of maritime software solutions for efficient and compliant cargo and vessel performance, has announced that it has ...

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 ...

The Baltic Container Terminal (BCT), a facility at Latvia’s port authority, Freeport of Riga, has deployed an automated solution for managing the movements of containers onto and off of vessels that ...

This article was taken from the November 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...