Shipping containers, once primarily used for transporting goods, are now emerging as an innovative housing trend in metro ...

Anyone who has ever been a fan of The Boxcar Children book series may have found the thought of living in a railroad car intriguing. In fact, that is probably more likely the case now than ever before ...

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: The first of the shipping container homes will be ready to move in June 1, but is currently on the market. SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – ...

Kris Sonderup wanted well-traveled steel for Lincoln’s first apartments built with shipping containers — 40-foot-by-8-foot boxes that had crossed the ocean time and again, repurposed into modern ...

The Austin yard of Bob's Containers echoes with the typical sounds of home construction: drilling, hammering, sawing and more. "Except our medium is a metal box," says co-owner Robert Balderas.

Container relocation and stacking optimisation are critical challenges in modern logistics, particularly in arid maritime container terminals where operational efficiency is paramount. These problems ...

Jen Sansosti says reading about shipping containers in the industrial port of Elizabeth, New Jersey, was, in part, what made her want to live in one. She resided across the river in Brooklyn in 2007, ...