Shipping containers are the backbone of global trade, enabling the efficient and secure transport of goods across oceans and continents. These steel boxes have revolutionized logistics, making it ...

Today the humble shipping container is everywhere: 10 million of them arrived at U.S. ports in 2016 alone. Pexels/Pixabay On April 26, 1956, a crane lifted 58 aluminum truck bodies onto the deck of an ...