CMCI changes hands – again
NewsUS special and military container manufacturer Charleston Marine Containers Inc (CMCI) has undergone a second change of ownership in less th...
2009 box output down 90% but recovery under way
NewsAs the container industry begins to recover from the effects of the global financial crisis, the full extent of the precipitous drop in dema...
New container for automotive parts
NewsDB Schenker Rail Automotive has developed a new type of container for the transport of automotive parts from Volkswagen's Wolfsburg facility...
Cronos takes UES Intermodal fleet
NewsIn the latest round of consolidation in the container leasing industry, Cronos Ltd has take over the management of the majority of the 220,0...
Sea Box aids Haiti with ShelterPak
NewsPrompted by company engineer Werner Guerrier, a Haitian native who lost his sister and nephew in the earthquake that hit the country on Janu...
Sea Box expands
NewsUS military and special container manufacturer Sea Box Inc has purchased a 378,000 ft2 facility in East Riverton, New Jersey, which will fun...
Box builders under the cosh
NewsThe desperate state of the container manufacturing industry is laid bare in interim reports released by the world’s two biggest box builde...
Singamas cuts target
NewsSingamas Container Holdings, the world’s second largest container manufacturer, has lowered its production target for this year by 16% to ...
An open and shut case
NewsA new sliding open top container developed in South Korea promises to overcome drawbacks associated with earlier designs at a cost that repr...
European box builders squeezed further
NewsEurope’s container manufacturing industry has been reduced to a mere handful of companies, all of which are battling against an increasing...
45ft SeaCell2 launched
NewsUK-based Container Group Technology (CGT) has unveiled a 45ft version of the SeaCell2 cellcompatible, palletwide container and licensed a se...
Cobra calls a halt
NewsCobra Containers, one of Europe’s few surviving container manufacturers, has been forced to throw in the towel. Production was halted this...
How high can you stack?
NewsA leading designer of 45ft “eurocontainers” is warning operators to be wary of claims about the stacking capacities of commonly used equ...
Box makers boom
NewsInterim figures from the world’s two largest container manufacturers show that container demand held up strongly throughout the first and ...
HMM opts for Magnum
NewsSouth Korean operator Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM), a long term customer for Thermo King’s reciprocating compressor reefer machinery with...