The Middle East conflict has stoked fears of prolonged disruption to global trade via key maritime corridors.

Shipping containers are so common they often blend into the background, but these humble 20 (or 40)-foot metal boxes are a recent invention, and we can thank (or curse) them for creating the modern ...

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company has suspended all bookings for worldwide cargo to the Middle East region. The move joins other major European liner operators taking action to avoid the troubled ...

A new method that uses a simple air sample and the power of a dog’s nose makes it easy to check shipping containers for ...

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 ...

DP World has acquired a 5,000+ TEU container vessel, DP World Chennai, integrating it into its Red Sea Gulf–India service to ...

Consider for a moment those large steel shipping containers that are used to transport furniture, food, materials and other imports or exports we use every day. They travel thousands of miles by ship, ...

Inflation looks to be easing across the developed world, except for one glaring pocket of hot prices: cargo costs on the high seas. Spot rates for full-size shipping containers to the U.S. and Europe ...

Risk is the "new normal" for the global ocean shipping industry that handles 80% of global trade as pressure from geopolitical tensions, rising protectionism and climate change mounts."There are going ...

Shipping containers are more than just metal boxes designed to transport goods around the world. The reality is that they offer a range of benefits that can significantly help businesses reduce both ...

Adelaide University researchers have shown that pairing sniffer dogs with a simple air-sampling device could dramatically improve the detection of illegally trafficked wildlife hidden inside shipping ...