container
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Average rate to ship a 40-foot container from Asia to the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The Port of Long Beach is working toward a goal of doubling its container volume by 2050 — and eliminating its carbon emissions along the way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Sailing from Busan New Port, the container ship -- the "PanStar Acro" -- will sail to Europe via the Arctic, testing whether a route opened by melting sea ice can be commercially viable.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Each consisted of a conical plastic container with a netted bottom and held one queen along with 60 worker bees.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
I count what we have: one box of pasta, one container of orange juice, and one loaf of bread equals three.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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They headed to the backyard, where a dozen containers lay in the sun, one for each of the international archaeological missions that had been working in Sudan before the war’s start.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
They produce 60 tonnes of the sweet yet smelly fruit, which is driven in frozen containers thousands of kilometres north into China.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
We tend to assume the next clever kitchen system will come from a new cookbook, a viral freezer hack or somebody else’s meticulously labeled meal-prep containers.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
"We started with the grass, unwanted containers and the polytunnel and now we have all of this – we've got the pond, tree bed and vegetables as well," she explained.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
There are nine perfect yogurt containers lined up on the refrigerator shelf.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
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