Empty shipping containers are crowding shipping ports around the world and creating an unexpected bottleneck in the global supply chain. Not long ago, the shipping industry was facing a shortage of ...

A surge in abandoned empty containers at Nigerian ports has been traced to the staggering cost of shipping them back to origin countries, a new report by the Sea Empowerment and Research Center (SEREC ...

OAKLAND (KPIX 5) – The backlog at the port of Oakland is about to get some help and some house cleaning with a plan to get empty containers filled with California exports. "Basically, the idea is to ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — More than 60 containers toppled off a cargo ship Tuesday morning in the Port of Long Beach, tumbling overboard and floating in the water. The shipping containers fell off a vessel ...