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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Advanced Steel Recovery, a Fontana, Calif.-based scrap recycling company, has been looking at ways to increase the amount of ferrous scrap exported via containers. Nathan Frankel, president of ASR, ...

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