Imagine you’re a port security guard, walking up and down rows of stacked shipping containers when you hear cries for help. You investigate. Getting closer to the sounds, unsure exactly [...]
A draft of the 2017 Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) update has been released by the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. You have between now and September 18th to submit written comments on it. An [...]
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 [...]
The Port of Virginia just had a very good fiscal year. In a press release from Port of Virginia Spokesman Joseph D. Harris, the port reported: The Port of Virginia® handled 231,675 twenty-foot [...]
On Sunday (July 9th, 2017), Cosco Shipping Holdings Co., Ltd. (Cosco); Shanghai International Port Group Co., Ltd (SIPG); and Orient Overseas International Limited (OOIL) announced jointly that [...]
Guest Post by Dakota Murphey NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: While Universal Cargo’s blog usually focuses on international shipping for businesses or news in the international shipping industry, we [...]
In this age when people and businesses are more and more dependent upon technology, it seems no company–no matter how big–is invulnerable to cyber attack. Or is it cyberattack? Or [...]
Tragic news came out of the international shipping industry about a week ago when a Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) container ship collided with a US Navy destroyer, killing seven US sailors. [...]
Guest post by Gemma Davies On Tuesday the 28th of March, 2017, British Prime Minister Theresa May signed article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, triggering the UK’s formal exit from the European Union [...]
Yesterday (Monday, June 19th), truckers formed picket lines at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, going on strike over their classification as independent contractors. If this sounds [...]
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