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Local neighbourhoods in the Southern California area are feeling the impact of the global container crisis as trucking companies in the region have exceeded storage space on their grounds [...]

According to a news report by The Loadstar, rather than relying on a network of overwhelmed commercial feeders, ocean carriers are launching dedicated services on intra-Asia trade routes as [...]

According to an official letter from the Government, the finance ministry has agreed to postpone the enforcement of a 51% Bumiputra ownership requirement for freight forwarding companies to 31 [...]

Taking a hard look around you, everything from your mobile phones to your sundry items stashed in the fridge are either directly shipped to you in shipping containers aboard freight liners or [...]

According to data from Drewry’s World Container Index (WCI), container freight rates are remaining steady at $10,377.19 per forty foot equivalent unit (feu), the same level as the week before. [...]

In a bid to become less dependent on foreign shippers, boost trade capabilities and reduce transport costs, Thailand is planning to launch its own national shipping company in June 2022. Paired [...]

Due to frustrations from delays and capacity shortages of shipping containers, City Zone Express (CZE), a transport and logistics company based in Penang has launched a 150-truck freight service [...]

Not seven months after the incident of the first Suez Canal blockage in Egypt that another vessel was reported to have been grounded, momentarily blocking one lane of the crucial global waterway. [...]

The Northern Michigan University (NMU) has deployed a state-of-the-art shipping container growing centre on its grounds in a bid to enhance its indoor agriculture program’s research, partnership [...]

Prior to the Coronavirus global pandemic, shipping containers were considered merely vessels for transporting goods across the sea and were regarded as little more than additional costs that [...]

KLANG, 3 Sept 2021 – Malaysian couple Zaizul Azri Mohamad Mahayudin and wife Hamizah Baharudin have built a house in Meru, Klang made entirely out of repurposed shipping containers for RM120,000. [...]

Birthed from the pure idea of simply wanting to reduce the cost of homes, a company based in Las Vegas, United States has created a new foldable modular home product that has now amassed $1 [...]

In a recent news report published by CNN, consumer goods producers are taking drastic steps to meet demand including changing where products are made and moving them by plane instead of boat. [...]

Due to the housing shortage in Kootenai County, Idaho, a family man has opted to build his home entirely out of shipping containers and urges the community to do the same. Matt Rowe has decided [...]

Ningbo-Zhousan is one of China’s second busiest port, managing up to 29 million 20-foot containers annually. Recently, due to a staff member at the Ningbo-Meishan terminal testing positive for [...]

A lot of small retailers and enterprises worldwide, including in Canada, are now suffering profit losses because of product delays brought on by the current global shipping container crisis [...]

Since 2020, shipping container prices worldwide have surged past normalcy, spurred by the high volume of online purchases as well as restrictions placed on port authorities due in part to the [...]

As prices for raw construction materials and land prices surge amid uncertain market conditions, scarcity of land and other economical impacts, it’s time for developers and niche contractors to [...]

KUALA LUMPUR (23 July 2021) – The cost of freight containers have more than quadrupled since last year as global demand outstrips supply due to container shortages and port congestions in Europe, [...]

KLANG (20 July 2021) – Solid Horizon Sdn Bhd is committed to reducing the output of carbon emissions through its main business modal and plans to become a zero-carbon emission company in the [...]

MUAR (16 July 2021) – On 11 July, just past midnight, the Malaysian Coast Guard received a distress call from Zephyr Lumos, a shipping container transport vessel, after it had collided with the [...]

KLANG (9 July 2021) – Adopting the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) ethos of doing business is empowering Solid Horizon to become a better and more responsible company for the [...]

KLANG (7 July 2021) – Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) has always been a big part of Solid Horizon’s business model, but the company will be focusing extra efforts on the practice to [...]

KUALA LUMPUR (1 July 2021) – The tight supply of containers and high freight costs continue to negatively impact the industry as Tan Sri Dato’ Mahiaddin Yasin, Prime Minister of Malaysia extends [...]

German international shipping and container transportation company Hapag-Lloyd announced recently that it was temporarily suspending import shipments to East Malaysian ports including Kuching, [...]

According to the Malaysian National Shippers’ Council (MNSC), exorbitant freight rates that have been aggravated by the container supply shortage are expected to continue for another eight [...]

KUALA LUMPUR (22 June 2021) – According to a news report by Focus Malaysia, Datuk Isham Ishak, Secretary General of the Ministry of Transport Malaysia (MoT) has expressed commitment to resolve [...]

Datuk Dr Andy Seo, Chairman of the Malaysian National Shippers Council (MNSC) is requesting that the Ministry of Transport (MoT) intervene with the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MITI) to change [...]

Report Linker has released its latest market report on shipping containers titled, “Shipping Container Market Research Report by Type, by Size, by Region – Global Forecast to 2026 – Cumulative [...]

There is always a risk when transporting shipping containers over open waters, whether it is rough weather conditions or pirates, logistic companies have to shoulder an immense amount of danger [...]

Nowadays, with the shortage of land, companies that rely on permanent structures for their businesses must get creative with their operations. However, ever since the pandemic, companies have [...]

KLANG (25 May 2021) – Solid Horizon is actively advocating the use of medical modular (Medmod) containers to provide additional space for hospitals and healthcare centres to comfortably treat its [...]

As consumer demands increase, so too do shipping containers and logistics technologies grow and innovate to cater to the needs of the industry. The seaborne transportation segment, a method of [...]

KUALA LUMPUR (19 May 2021) – AmInvestment Bank Bhd maintains their ‘Overweight’ recommendation for the transportation and logistics sector due to ports across South-East Asia, including Malaysia, [...]

SUNGAI BULOH (18 May 2021) – Due to the increasing rate of deaths in the state of Selangor directly related to Covid-19 and its variant strains, Sungai Buloh Hospital has resorted to using [...]

KUALA LUMPUR (15 May 2021) – Due to the computer outage on 27 March at the Senari port in Kuching, Sarawak, shipping associations have suffered losses in both operating costs as well as sailings [...]

Shipping containers have always flown under the radar for a lot of people that aren’t part of the logistics or import/export industry, but shipping containers actually play a pivotal role in our [...]

Despite the recent news of shipping container prices easing since the pandemic, there still exists a shortage in the global supply of intermodal containers for logistical purposes spurred by the [...]

According to a report from Hellenic Shipping News, global merchants have begun witnessing the prices of shipping containers start to ease off since April. However, prices will remain higher than [...]

DENGKIL (27 April 2021) – Solid Horizon Sdn Bhd, a Malaysian manufacturer and supplier of shipping containers, has successfully completed and handed over phase 1 of Gamuda Land Sdn Bhd’s Gamuda [...]

Shipping containers have been considered the invention of the century that revolutionised the manufacturing, retail and logistics industries of the world. However, through the innovation of human [...]

COLORADO (23 April 2021) – For the past three years, FarmBox Foods, a company based in Sedalia, Colorado, has been growing vegetables in shipping containers to provide sustainably sourced food to [...]

In an article by Charles B. McKenna that was published in Security Magazine, he stated that he subscribed to the view that shipping containers made more of an impact to the world than the [...]

KUALA LUMPUR (6 April 2021) – Solid Horizon Sdn Bhd was one of the small medium enterprises (SME) and local non-listed companies to receive recognition for their business achievements at the Star [...]

KUALA LUMPUR (6 April 2021) – As Cabinet recently gave its approval to proceed with the construction of the third Klang Valley Mass Rapid Train (KVMRT) line dubbed the “circle line”, this boasts [...]

KUALA LUMPUR (31 March 2021) – Despite the volatility in steel prices throughout 2020 and the first half of 2021 that continues to affect companies with a core business in steel trading, Solid [...]

KUALA LUMPUR (31 March 2021) – With the Ever Given container carrier finally unwedged from the Suez Canal riverbank, as of Tuesday morning, it is estimated up to 140 ships are now able to pass [...]

  KLANG (Dec 17) – As companies from various industries weather the effects of the recent enforcement of the Minimum Standards of Housing, Accommodation and Employee Facilities Act 1990 (Act [...]