future of shipping

What happens to your package after it leaves your arms

The future of seaports could be not having any seaports at all. At least that’s the vision of Jeremy Wiley,...

To plan their routes, the crews of transoceanic cargo ships have to assimilate a huge amount of information: from beacons...

The century-old Panama Canal has a major shortcoming: New ships are too long, too deep and too wide to fit...

In the half-century since Malcom McLean, an entrepreneurial former trucker from North Carolina, first began packing freight onto ships in...

Every month, some 1,300 ships heading to or from the Suez Canal must pass through the lawless waters off the...

The next generation of carrier ships will run on cleaner fuel and less of it. They will transform to optimize...

For a few short weeks last September, the Northwest and Northeast passages through the Arctic Ocean were simultaneously ice-free from...