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It’s hee-eere. The new Verified Gross Mass (VGM) rule goes into effect tomorrow: July 1st. For many exporters, imagining the little girl from Poltergeist saying that first line of this post [...]

Finally, all Incoterms defined and in one easy to access place! A video series on Incoterms from Universal Cargo’s Universal Shipping News has just been completed, allowing shippers and [...]

Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) stock just shot up by the maximum daily allowable amount. This must make debtors of the nearly $5-billion-in-debt shipping line feel good right about now. In a [...]

Illegal. That’s what Seaspan called Hanjin Shipping Co.’s request for a cut in charter rates on the ships it leases from the container ship leasing company. Kyunghee Park [...]

This year has seen record low freight rates. While freight rate pricing has been increasing, shippers are still paying significantly less than in previous years. World Maritime News reported a [...]

South Korea might have been taking notes when China pushed for the merger of its two, big, state-owned shipping companies, Cosco Group and China Shipping Group. South Korea may force Hanjin [...]

July 1st is less than a month away. Many in the international shipping industry are nervous about that. That’s because July 1st is when the International Convention for the Safety of Life [...]

  Back in March, the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) officially requested the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) start early talks to extend the current contract that [...]

Last week when we blogged on Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM), South Korea’s second largest largest container carrier’s theme song was Queen’s “Another One Bites the [...]

When you think of major U.S. ports, the obvious ones that come to mind are probably the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on the West Coast, the Ports of New York and New Jersey on the East [...]