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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is a new wave of 18,000 container superships. The size and other improvements allow 40% less oil to be used per container. Venice has an offshore-onshore port project. Cassette Loading Unit – ...

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