How is the Panama Canal Expansion Working Out?
It’s hard to believe it, but a year has already passed since the unveiling of the expanded Panama Canal. Plagued with delays and increases in costs, it once seemed the expansion project [...]
It’s hard to believe it, but a year has already passed since the unveiling of the expanded Panama Canal. Plagued with delays and increases in costs, it once seemed the expansion project [...]
Jorge Quijano, Administrator and CEO of the Panama Canal Authority (ACP), released an awfully cheerful statement, published by the American Journal of Transportation (AJOT). It opens with: [...]
Despite reportedly being 95% complete, there’s a good chance the Panama Canal expansion won’t be completed by April of next year as currently projected. I can hear those groans and [...]
Panama Canal Nearing Completion I can hear the choirs singing, “Soon and very soon…!” Rather than singing about seeing the King, they’re singing about seeing the completed [...]
Is there a danger to the Southern California ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles? Some are speculating there is a danger in the form of the Panama Canal Expansion that is currently underway. We [...]
You wouldn't know it by watching the news, but the water conditions at the Panama Canal have improved. More ships can transit the canal than restrictions had been and were planning to allow. With [...]
Chain reaction. Noun. A series of events where one event causes another, then another, and so on. Example: there's a drought happening in Panama. The drought lowers the water level of Gatun Lake. [...]
“Don’t call it a comeback; I been here for years.” I can just hear the Panama Canal saying those LL Cool J words as it regains market share from the Suez Canal on Asia to U.S. [...]
Last week, BBC News reported that another container ship hit a wall of the newly expanded Panama Canal. Yes, another container ship. After being open for about a month, the enlarged Panama Canal [...]
After years of labor and billions of dollars have been invested in expanding the Panama Canal to allow much larger cargo ships through, many shippers worry sending their cargo through the canal [...]
East Coast ports have been eagerly anticipating the expansion of the Panama Canal to allow megaships (of course, not the most mega of megaships, but 1.5 times larger than the previous [...]
Congestion. After the last couple years, shippers are probably hoping to never see that word written in an international shipping article or blog again. Unfortunately, those hopes are doomed to [...]
Every week, we post inquiries on Universal Cargo Management’s Facebook and Twitter pages asking what you want to read about in our international shipping blog. Yesterday–Monday, March [...]
Anyone who drives through densely populated areas knows the frustration of traffic jams. There are stretches of roads notorious for frustrating drivers and making perfectly punctual people late [...]
For nearly a century, the Panama Canal has created a monopoly for connecting ocean transport between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. But now, China has proposed to build a rail in Colombia that [...]
Whoah!
Collisions and incidents with cargo ships are not uncommon; however, it's not every day one is caught on video. But that's exactly what happened at South Asia Pakistan [...]
The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) is losing another commissioner. Commissioner William P. Doyle announced in a press release yesterday (November 27th) that he is stepping down from the FMC: [...]
I read something very disturbing this week. According to a brief from Supply Chain Dive, most cargo imported to the U.S. travels uninsured. In fact, according the brief, 9 out of 10 shipping [...]
This is it! Universal Cargo’s last blog of 2016. What better way to close out the year than with a look back on the top international shipping stories of 2016. Below you’ll find a [...]
Try not to hear Steve Carell saying, “That’s what she said!” in your head when considering the international shipping industry’s stance on size: bigger is better. It seems [...]