On Tuesday, we covered three international shipping news stories affecting shippers. Among them was the Federal Maritime Commission’s (FMC’s) publication of a new rule concerning [...]
What's happening in international shipping right now? Here are three news stories currently affecting imports and exports. Plus, there's a bonus ILA Strike threat summary at the end. 1. Russia [...]
It’s not the economy that drove up shipping demand. Not consumer spending. It was logistical considerations. Importers were trying to get ahead of supply chain disruption risks. Risks like [...]
DEFCON levels for the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) strike watch just went up a level. Or wait, down a level, as lower levels mean higher threat. Oh, DEFCON, how you vex me. On [...]
According to S&P Global data shared in the Journal of Commerce (JOC), July 5th freight rates from Asia to the U.S. West Coast (USWC) were up 350% compared to the same time last year. Asia to U.S. [...]
Universal Cargo's International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) strike watch continues.... Shippers dread an ILA strike, which would shut down ports all along the East and Gulf Coasts, [...]
Today's blog post is a little different. We put a pertinent international shipping story for shippers into a Star Wars parodying crawl. However, not everyone may enjoy reading about U.S. ports [...]
It's been over two weeks since the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) abruptly cancelled contract negotiations on the day they were to finally resume. There has been no sign of the [...]
Yang Ming is one of the world's major ocean freight carriers. It's Taiwan's second largest ocean carrier. It's the 10th largest ocean freight carrier in the world. According to a Journal of [...]
The International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) cancelled contract negotiations last week. Then the union said its threatened strike, which would start October 1st, is "more likely." That [...]
It's not unprecedented, but we're looking at an early peak season for international shipping this year. Analyzing wide industry reporting, the demand side of ocean freight has picked up in April [...]
The Biden Administration took a page out of the Trump Administration handbook this week as it announced big tariff hikes on imports from China. Regular readers of Universal Cargo's blog won't be [...]
Yesterday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Baltimore used explosives on the part of the collapsed Francis Key Bridge that's been holding the giant container ship Dali trapped for over a [...]
If you're importing from Asia right now, there's a high chance you're experiencing or about to experience delays in getting your cargo. It's likely an increase in shipping costs is hitting this [...]
A couple weeks ago, I posted an article about what AI "thinks" about international shipping. It contained a "conversation" I had with AI, where I asked it questions about international shipping. [...]
The last post was about how nobody knows anything about what will happen with the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) contract negotiations, with its potential to highly disrupt [...]
"Nobody knows anything." If I were Joe Biden, I'd make up a story about my father or grandpop telling me that when I was a kid as we all discussed blue collar issues around the dinner table. But [...]
For today's blog, I thought we'd do something a little bit different. The artificial intelligence (AI) craze has hit. Despite all those warnings we got from movies in the 80's and 90's, everyone [...]
In a speech, yesterday, to union workers in Pennsylvania, President Biden called for U.S. trade representative Katherine Tai to consider tripling tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum if her [...]
