They're the detritus of commercial shipping containers lost in the open ocean. Most of the world's raw materials and everyday goods that are moved over long distances — from T-shirts to ...

On a sunny afternoon in June a dozen trucks line up on North Marine Drive in Portland, waiting to turn into marine Terminal 6 where they’ll drop off or load up large shipping containers.

If the developer building a six-story apartment complex in Salt Lake City out of shipping containers had it to do over again, he says he probably wouldn’t. Box 500 Apartments, the blocky blue ...