Every year, tens of millions of shipping containers move via water, rail and road, carrying cargo around the planet. The ubiquitous and nondescript steel boxes are always on the move, but plans are in ...

Increasingly, individuals conscious about the environment are opting for stainless steel food storage containers over their plastic counterparts. The benefits of these containers include their ...

Mike Corvi caught the cargo container bug about three years ago, after reading a magazine article about shipping containers being turned into housing for Aborigines in Australia's northern territories ...

Homes are springing up around the world featuring the latest trend in green building: Transforming a shipping container into a home. As a home building material, these containers actually have a lot ...

Millions — perhaps tens of millions — of shipping containers are sitting empty at ports all over the world. And they've been a treasure trove for architects Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano. "We found ...

In Georgia and beyond, shipping containers are being repurposed into everything from homes and offices to pop-up cafés and classrooms. As the push for greener construction grows, these steel boxes ...

With origins tracing back to the mid-1950s, the modern metal shipping container continues to serve as a secure, practical vessel for transporting valuable materials from one place to another. At Star, ...

Steel shipping containers are used to crate cargo up and down the Mississippi River and around the world. The Port of New Orleans is filled with the massive steel boxes. This weekend, the New Orleans ...

Engineers and architects have transformed ordinary shipping containers into amazing homes and office spaces around the world. Here are a few of our favorites. With its modern lines and appealing ...