It reaches up to 52 feet into the truck trailer or shipping container and can handle boxes weighing up to 50 lbs, including containers with packing complexities and Mixed SKU loads.

This system dramatically reduced the cost of loading and unloading a ship. In 1956, manually loading a ship cost $5.86 per ton; the standardized container cut that cost to just 16 cents a ton.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — More than 60 containers toppled off a cargo ship Tuesday morning in the Port of Long Beach, tumbling ...

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Shipping companies represented by the Pacific Maritime Association are suspending the loading and unloading of vessels during four of the next five days as labor unrest at West Coast Ports continues.

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 ...

LOS ANGELES >> A labor dispute between terminal operators at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and their workers took another turn Tuesday, with operators being ordered to completely stop ...

Rose George explains how simply loading and unloading giant ships is a task that calls on physics, chemistry -- and knowledge of pirate tactics ...