Tag Archives: international cargo shipping

Shipping Container Shortage In 2023

The last several years have seen shortages in the availability of shipping containers in the United States. The majority of these shipping containers come from China, and so we look to China to understand the reasons for the shipping container shortages. Some industry professionals pose questions asking if part of the reason is that American […]

Top 5 World’s Largest Container Shipping Companies

Most of the goods that we use in our everyday lives – like the very smartphone you are using to read this article – were manufactured in another country, loaded into a Conex shipping container, and shipped across the ocean on a massive container ship and unloaded at a shipping container port near your city. […]

Shipping Container GPS Tracking

Future Of Smart Shipping Containers In recent years there’s been a demand for better transparency and improvements with security in the container transport supply chain. Typically, when a shipping container is loaded onto a cargo ship its location and arrival cannot be pinpointed, so the only tracking available is of the vessel it’s been loaded […]