FreightWaves explores the archives of American Shipper’s nearly 70-year-old collection of shipping and maritime publications to showcase interesting freight stories of long ago. In this edition, from ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. Whether the goal is ...

Containerization approaches bring advantages to the operation and maintenance of systems across physical compute resources. In the enterprise IT world, containers are leveraged to decouple ...

Containers and containerization are the future, right? According to these industry experts, containerization is not all sunshine and rainbows. Containerization offers plenty of benefits — including ...

With the advent of containerization, cargo could be packed into a giant box at one end, shipped on rail, truck and ship, and unpacked upon arrival. The time saved was incredible. Before ...

In the 1950s, Keith Tantlinger built a better box and forever changed the way global business operates. His take on the shipping container made it easier to send and store all kinds of products all ...

Efficient transport: Cars waiting to be shipped at the Jawaharlal Nehru port, the country's largest container port. Containerization is expected to encourage and facilitate multi-modal transportation.