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Among the selections in the growing library of the Robeson County History Museum is a signed copy of “Death Sentence,” the story of Robeson serial killer Velma…

The crisis in Dublin’s north-east inner city can be traced back, in part, to the story of an American trucker and an old World War II tanker. Tired of waiting for his trucks to be manually unloaded and loaded at the dockside, Malcolm McLean had the idea that the vehicles should carry standardised containers that could be hoisted directly on and off the ship. So, in 1956, he refitted an old tanker and tried it. Loading a ship by hand cost $5.86 per ton; using containers, the cost fell to $0.16 ...

In 1956, U.S. businessman Malcolm McLean was granted a patent for his intermodal shipping container. Today, tens of millions of shipping containers provide…

East End school budgets were dealt some blows by voters for 2023/24, but most were successful, while various boards saw new and returning members.

By John Konrad (gCaptain) In the vast cosmos of technological innovation, the concept of rocket-propelled cargo transport has become a dazzling star, captivating the imagination of enthusiasts and dreamers alike....

Voters will head to the polls next Tuesday, May 16 to approve the 2023 school budget and board of education for multiple East End schools.

School district residents go to the polls on May 17, 2022, to vote on budgets and members of their local boards for the coming school year.

Records were shattered at Kilrea Mart on Tuesday when a pedigree Holstein bull sold for a centre record of 9,000gns.

In the last week of April, the shipping community remembers the invention of the shipping container, one of the biggest milestones in modern maritime...

'Containerisation' of shipping cargo shaped your life in ways you can't even imagine. Development of the 'standard intermodal containe...