How the shipping container revolutionized freight and trade Before the shipping container, goods were manually loaded into barrels and wooden creates.

AshBritt's trucks have torn up Elgin’s roads and have led to increased levels of noise as they remove border shipping containers, residents say.

A Henry County woman says a shipping container filled with her furniture and priceless heirlooms fell off the back of a tow truck.

McLean—a high school-educated truck driver from North Carolina—came up with the idea of creating a series of standardized, intermodal steel containers that could neatly be stacked on ships as ...

The SL-tainer shipping container can load itself onto a truck without the need for an expensive crane. The container box sprouts four hydraulic legs which lift it so a truck can back under it ...

After a truck went under a railroad bridge, the shipping container fell off its flatbed and crushed a bicyclist who was riding on the sidewalk.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Two people are hospitalized after a shipping container fell off a semi-truck on Interstate 90 Sunday afternoon, police say.

It has the look of a freak occurrence, tragically amplified by timing: A truck is traveling a well-worn industrial area when its cargo, a shipping container, clips the bottom of a railroad bridge.

Global container shipping freight rates have reached unsustainable levels and must rebound, the chief executive of Germany's Hapag Lloyd , the world's number five operator by volume, said on Tuesday.

Shipping containers aren't much more than steel boxes. But they have become increasingly valuable during the worldwide supply chain crisis.