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We’ve supersized our capacity to ship stuff across the seas. As our global supply chains grow, what can we gather from the junk that washes up on shore?

From California’s citrus heyday in the 1800s to Cold War military expansion, the Inland Empire has been a center of shipping and distribution. Today’s warehouses boom, linked to ongoing environmental degradation and job insecurity, has its roots in the science of war and in long histories of land and labor exploitation.

Malcolm McLean may be the most important person you’ve never heard of. His claim to fame? Inventing a box.

Shipping containers, explained by a historian.

How international standards enabled containers to be stacked and shipped.

Share this article By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen (Reuters) – High shipping rates are set to continue for at least several weeks, despite new coronavirus lockdowns in Europe, boosted by demand for furniture, exercise equipment and home improvement goods, shipping group Maersk ($AKMBY) said on Wednesday. A surge in demand from shoppers sheltering at home in a worsening COVID-19 pandemic has upended normal trade flows and triggered a spike in the cost of moving goods around. “There are simply n...

The finance ministry said last week it saw 2020 exports hitting a record high. The transport ministry’s Maritime and Port Bureau said the shipping container shortage was most severe on U.S. routes, and that it had met Taiwanese shipping companies on Dec. 1 to discuss the problem and ensure trade can flow. While noting that freight rates were a commercial decision that follow market principles, shippers should not be trying to gouge customers, the bureau added. “In order to avoid unscrupu...

The Offending Classic Photo: Nikolai Aistov as the Rajah, Julia Sedova as Gamzatti and Pavel Gerdt as Solor (ca. 1902). Courtesy of the Marius Petipa Society. We have recently seen a conflict over a Depression-era mural on the wall of a public school in San Francisco. It came under attack by the student body for its offensive content to minorities, even though the 1930s mural in question was by Russian leftist émigré artist Victor Arnautoff (hardly a household name) and was created as a prote...