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Some things you just don’t ship, shippers. At the top of the list of things not to ship are arms and related material. No, not body parts, people; we’re talking about weapons. Though, [...]

Oh, ILWU contract negotiations, to what shall I compare thee? How about football! And the World Cup is over so I’m talking American football. It’s not just the world of international [...]

Goodbye P3, hello 2M. It didn’t take long after China halted plans for the P3 Network, what would have been an operational alliance between the three biggest carriers in the international [...]

What are all these grumblings and rumblings about the ILWU dockworkers joining the truckers strike at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach? In Universal Cargo Management’s last blog, I [...]

There’s a strike at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and International Longshore and Warehouse Workers Union (ILWU) released the following statement [...]

A new episode of Super Shipping is out! Super Shipping Ep. 5: Importing a Superhero In the last episode, Wondrous Woman quit. Ratman interviews for a replacement but Sticky-Man isn’t happy [...]

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is now working without a contract at the ports along the West Coast (WC). As expected, the ILWU contract expired this week without a [...]