Ah, the unassuming shipping container. It's really nothing more than a big steel box with a couple of doors. At any given time, millions of containers are piled on ships plying the world's waterways.

Container ships are an astonishing feat of human innovation and engineering. Their size, weight, and capability to carry gargantuan loads of cargo across large expanses of the ocean have ...

Shipping containers aren't much more than steel boxes. But they have become increasingly valuable during the worldwide supply chain crisis. At any time, there are some 30 million shipping containers ...