Russ Lewis has picked up some strange things along the coast of Long Beach Peninsula in Washington state over the years: Hot Wheels bicycle helmets with feather tufts, life-size plastic turkey decoys ...

Gaps in fencing along the US-Mexico border can be a dramatic – and sometimes puzzling – sight. Miles of tall steel bollards end abruptly, giving way to open space or much smaller barriers that are ...

In the 1950s, trucking magnate Malcom McLean changed the world when he got frustrated enough with the speed of trucking and traffic to start a commercial shipping company in order to move goods up and ...

Scientists surveying the bottom of the Pacific Ocean have discovered something they knew was there but had never seen before: a shipping container. Cargo ships regularly lose these containers ...

LONG BEACH, Wash. — Russ Lewis has picked up some strange things along the coast of Long Beach Peninsula in Washington state over the years: Hot Wheels bicycle helmets with feather tufts, life-size ...

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 ...

Some of the 16 shipping containers mostly filled with bananas that fell off a cargo ship were "not properly secured", an ...

Three shipping containers remain missing more than two weeks after they fell overboard and started washing up on the West ...

They are the heavy metal boxes dotting properties across the country that have morphed into self-contained coffee shops or boutique food outlets. A second-hand container can be bought for less than $2 ...

At any given moment, upwards of 250 million containers of raw materials and finished goods are traveling by sea to bustling ports worldwide, making efficient container management a critical ingredient ...

When Arnold Stalk, an architect working with homeless housing, was on a cruise in the 1980s, he spotted dozens of disused shipping containers at the ports he passed — and he had an idea. Stalk, who ...

It measures only 8 feet by 8 feet. But to Stephen Smith, the tiny red house in North Hollywood is the place he calls home. Until early last month, Smith had been living out of his car in locations ...