Lifting the container-stacking regulations means that the storage yards are no longer full. That will allow trucks to take full containers out of Long Beach again since they will have somewhere to ...

In February, the cargo ship President Eisenhower lost 24 containers off the central California coast. Some held bales of soon-waterlogged cotton and burst open.

Environment Thousands of shipping containers have been lost at sea. What happens when they burst open? A trade group says some 250 million shipping containers cross the oceans every year — but ...

A multimillion-dollar investment at the Port of Long Beach aims to create new land from the sea, potentially transforming how ...

A long row of double-stacked shipping containers provides a new wall between the United States and Mexico in the remote section area of San Rafael Valley, Ariz., Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022.

People walk past stranded containers in the area between Tranum and Slette beach in Denmark, Saturday, Dec. 23, 2023, a day after a Maersk ship dropped 46 containers off the coast between Bulbjerg ...

Cargo ships can lose anywhere from a single container to hundreds at a time in rough seas. Experts disagree on how many are lost each year. The World Shipping Council, an industry group, reports ...

More than 20,000 shipping containers have tumbled overboard in the last decade and a half. Their varied contents have washed onto shorelines, poisoned fisheries and animal habitats, and added to ...

Fish and other sea life around a shipping container lost from the cargo vessel Med Taipei during a storm in February 2004, found around 1,280 meters (4,200 feet) below the surface of the Monterey ...