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 ...

It’s just over 50 years since the shipping container took its first trip. Though it has changed little in the subsequent half century, standardised containerisation has dramatically reduced global ...

There are many different types of shipping containers out there and not one. Shipping containers come in all shapes and sizes. There are several reasons why people use them for storage. Some use them ...

Standards are a good thing, but it’s important to know how different standards do (or don’t) work together—and what they mean for your container deployment efforts moving forward How do you know ...

Shipping containers in Helsingborg, Sweden. Courtesy of Håkan Dahlström/Flickr Roman Mars’ podcast 99% Invisible covers design questions large and small, from his fascination with rebar to the history ...