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Universal Cargo’s blog was going to publish a guest post today, but then big international shipping news hit late last night/early this morning. President Trump and President Xi JinPing [...]

What’s that you say? It’s been too long since new trade deals have dropped? Well, the Trump Administration gave us five of them in the last few days: deals with Japan, Vietnam, [...]

Air Freight Surge A couple weeks ago, the trade war between the U.S. and China escalated. China announced export controls expansions and President Trump responded with a threat of increasing [...]

This is a guest post by Jeremy Poole. Imagine customs officers yawning behind their screens. Or a single email halting a whole continent, contracts freezing in midair, containers waiting in salt [...]

Barely more than a week ago, Universal Cargo’s blog post was about falling freight rates. Freight rates had seen 16 consecutive weeks of decline and were at their lowest since January of [...]

Last week, the U.S.–China trade war, which has seemed pretty tranquil of late, escalated. China Expands Export Controls on Rare Earths On Thursday (October 9th), Beijing announced new measures to [...]

Are we finally going to see a return of normalcy for container ships moving through the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea to utilize the Suez Canal in international shipping? Rerouting ships down and [...]

Ocean freight rates in the international shipping industry are classically volatile. However, lately we’ve been seeing freight rates consistently fall. To show what we mean, the Drewry [...]

Here we go again. We have a government shutdown as Democrats, wanting to show strong opposition to the Trump Administration, refuse to pass the Republican-led spending bill that would keep the [...]