Malcolm McLean may be the most important person you’ve never heard of. His claim to fame? Inventing a box. But not just any box. McLean—a high school-educated truck driver from North Carolina—came up ...

Today the humble shipping container is everywhere: 10 million of them arrived at U.S. ports in 2016 alone. Pexels/Pixabay On April 26, 1956, a crane lifted 58 aluminum truck bodies onto the deck of an ...

Cranes in ports, factories and businesses around the globe spend their days lifting shipping containers on and off trucks. But those cranes could soon find themselves out of a job because of a new ...