Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chinese manufacturers are pumping out record volumes of freight containers after shippers ordered vast stacks ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Thieves broke into a freight storage area at the Pacific coast seaport of Manzanillo and stole 20 freight containers loaded with partly refined gold and silver ore and television ...

The United States imports more than $100 billion of food every year from farms across the globe, often in the big metal shipping containers you see on cargo ships. Now, entrepreneurs are using those ...

When it comes to farming, only certain crops can develop in certain climates. With modern advances in refrigeration and transportation, many places have been able to get around this. Much of the food ...

If we built farms in space, they'd look nothing like the vast wheat fields of Kansas. But they just might look something like urban farms being used today—modular closed-loop hydroponic farms, ...

PHOENIX -- The future of urban agriculture might require farmers to think inside the box. Farmers here are growing vegetables here in converted freight shipping containers equipped with the latest ...

Download the PDF of this article. What inspired the idea to create the farm system in a shipping container? We got started around 2009, and at the time there were only rooftop greenhouses coming into ...

YRC Freight, the North American long-haul unit of less-than-truckload carrier YRC Worldwide (NYSE: YRCW) is proceeding with its strategy to use branded intermodal containers. YRC Freight said on ...

While other Orange County cities are busily turning warehouses into homeless shelters, Buena Park decided to take a different approach – re-purposing freight containers instead. The city soon will ...