The Unseen World of Shipping Containers Look around. The device you're reading this on, the chair you're sitting in, the clothes you're wearing—there's a very high probability that at least one of these items, or their components, spent part of its journey inside a large, corrugated steel box. The humble shipping container is one of the most pivotal, yet overlooked, inventions of the 20th century. It is the very backbone of our...