World Mar 25, 2021

Massive ship blocking Suez Canal paralyzes trade for another day

The situation has gotten so desperate that an elite salvage squad is due to arrive Thursday to work on prising the Ever Given from the bank of the canal.

World Feb 3, 2021

Container crunch upends global food trade while ships queue at U.S. ports

Food is piling up in all the wrong places, thanks to carriers hauling empty shipping containers.

Asia Pacific / Science & Health | FOCUS Jul 16, 2019

Not going anywhere: How to handle the world's growing trash problem

The stench of curdled milk wafted from a shipping container of waste at Malaysia's Port Klang as Environment Minister Yeo Bee Yin told a group of journalists in May she would send the maggot-infested rubbish back where it came from. Yeo was voicing a concern ...

Business Sep 27, 2017

Mitsui and science startups look to landfill gas for sustainable food for the future

Imagine a world where gas emitted from landfills can be turned into edible protein that ends up on your plate as a burger or a steak. That's what some scientists are hoping for. Calysta Inc. in California and String Bio in the Indian city of ...