As the container shipping industry continues to boom ... This Wall Street Journal brief history series helps explain the now, by looking back at how we got here.

With the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, brewing companies needed a new way to establish their place in the lives of Americans ...

On an average day in the Port of New York and New Jersey, about 4,000 shipping containers—lined end to end, they would stretch 15 miles—are lifted off freighters and released into the arteries ...

Arizona is selling off shipping containers formerly used as a border wall, with about two-thirds still available. Most containers are being repurposed for storage, but some have been converted ...