The Empty Container Crisis: Rethinking Global Shipping for Efficiency and Sustainability
Understanding the Empty Container Volume and Costs Imagine countless steel boxes, the lifeblood of global trade, crisscrossing the oceans and clogging up ports, completely devoid of cargo. The sheer scale is staggering. An estimated hundreds of millions of twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUs, of empty shipping containers are shifted across the globe annually. This massive … Read more