http://www.gizmag.com It’s just over 50 years since the shipping container took its first trip. Though it has changed little in the subsequent half century, standardised containerisation has dramatically reduced global transportation costs and supercharged international trade. Containerisation remains a beacon of efficiency only because it exists within the obscenely inefficient, environmentally irresponsible and otherwise resistant-to-change shipping industry. Now a new collapsible composite container is being trialled which is ingeniously more efficient, lighter, cheaper, more easily trackable, more accountable in terms of its contents and more environmentally-friendly. Despite a raft of advantages, it might not go into service because ...en gizmag.com http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-24190 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-24190 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:05:00 -0500 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-22393 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-22393 Fri, 14 May 2010 09:44:35 -0500 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-19225 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-19225 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:27:54 -0500 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-13096 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-13096 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:19:26 -0600 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-13009 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-13009 Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:18:08 -0600 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-12904 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-12904 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:29:34 -0600 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-12853 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-12853 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:27:28 -0600 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-12850 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-12850 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:23:51 -0600 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-12811 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-12811 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:59:30 -0600 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-12793 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-12793 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:17:07 -0600 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-12784 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-12784 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:22:40 -0600 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-12769 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-12769 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:17:44 -0600 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-12739 http://www.gizmag.com/the-cargoshell-ingenious-collapsible-replacement-for-the-standard-shipping-container/13736/#comment-12739 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:01:57 -0600