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 gases ...

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The BPS Container Loading System from Best Process Solutions Inc. (BPS), Brunswick, Ohio, is engineered to load 20-foot and 40-foot shipping containers quickly and efficiently with ferrous and ...

Classification society the Korean Register (KR) has published guidance outlining the technical measures necessary to safely load and carry containers on bulk cargo ships amid the current sustained ...

Bill Tigner, president of U.S. Shredder & Castings Group, based in Trussville, Ala., says if a yard is loading containers with equipment that produces less than desired tonnage or takes more than 30 ...

OAKLAND, Calif. & FLENSBURG, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Navis, the leading provider of maritime software solutions for efficient and compliant cargo and vessel performance, has announced that it has ...

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The Danish naval architect company KNUD E. HANSEN has recently been developing a number of container feeder vessel designs. Each of the designs presents a series of innovations as part of a solution ...

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