Container loading and packing optimisation constitute a critical area of research in logistics and supply chain management, focussing on the efficient arrangement of items within containers to ...

The BEST sea-container loading system from Metso Minerals Industries “delivers raw materials to overseas markets by eliminating the bottleneck at the port via traditional break-bulk loading,” ...

Container ships are the pack mules of global trade, and journalist Rose George's new book, Ninety Percent of Everything, is the latest look at how the steel boxes full of solids, liquids, and gases ...

Bill Tigner, president of U.S. Shredder & Castings Group, based in Trussville, Ala., says if a yard is loading containers with equipment that produces less than desired tonnage or takes more than 30 ...

International Journal of Transport Economics / Rivista internazionale di economia dei trasporti, Vol. 44, No. 1 (MARCH 2017), pp. 49-70 (22 pages) The increase of rail freight transportation is highly ...