They spent just over a year building the home. — -- When Regan and Libby Foster set out to build a new home in Denver, Colorado, they went to the shipping yard instead of the home improvement ...

Plastic fruit containers are reusable in countless ways. Instead of throwing them out, try repurposing your used plastic ...

Update outlines common applications for portable storage across residential, construction, and small business settings ...

Every day, thousands of steel boxes roll off ships into American ports, treated as routine units of global trade. Researchers ...

Converting a shipping container into a garage is a very real possibility, but there are some important factors to take into account before you get started.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Port of Long Beach boat pushes one of dozens of shipping containers that fell off a cargo vessel in the port Sept. 9, 2025.

From tiny houses to apartment buildings, art galleries and more, architects never seem to tire of experimenting with shipping containers. This neat example of the metal boxes' versatility consists of ...

When the Ever Given became stuck in the Suez Canal in 2021, the BBC reported, it prevented approximately 12% of the world's trade from passing through. The Ever Given itself had a capacity for 20,000 ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- More than 60 shipping containers fell from a cargo ship, many of them into the ocean, on Tuesday morning in the Port of Long Beach. According to a statement from the port, ...

Whether you’re stowing leftovers in the fridge or throwing lunch in your bag for the workday, you want a sturdy, tight-sealing container that keeps your food fresh. And as you’ve probably learned ...

A local business owner is facing a violation from the City of Wilmington because of his use of a cargo container. Now, he’s asking the city to change its code to allow the creative use of the metal ...