Cargo ships can lose anywhere from a single container to hundreds at a time in rough seas. Experts disagree on how many are ...

Most of the world’s everyday goods and raw materials moved over long distances are packed in large metal boxes the size of ...

The Associated Press reported more than 20,000 shipping containers have been lost at sea in the last decade and a half, ...

The disaster dumped more than 1,400 damaged shipping containers into the sea — releasing billions of plastic manufacturing ...

The disaster spilled over 1,400 damaged shipping containers into the ocean, releasing billions of plastic nurdles—small pellets used in manufacturing—along with thousands of tons of toxic ...

Workers who load and unload shipping containers from cargo ships are at ... most crucially for Houston’s export economy, plastic resins, Thompson said. Port Houston is the nation’s leader ...

Founded in 1946 in Massachusetts by Earl Tupper, Tupperware invented an air-tight seal for its plastic containers that helped ... of everything from plastics to shipping rising sharply in recent ...