Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), the world's second largest ocean freight carrier by capacity for the moment, put out a press release on Monday concerning its executive leadership: MSC [...]
In case anyone actually needed more evidence for the volatility of freight rates, ocean shipping prices just swung in the opposite direction again. After blogging just a week ago about a surge in [...]
The much toted Phase One Trade Deal between the U.S. and China was hoped to be signed this weekend on the 16th or 17th of November. With the 17th being my birthday, I would have accepted the deal [...]
This year, freight rates in the traditionally peak season months have behaved untraditionally. Instead of seeing higher freight rates, this peak season was full of falling freight rates. However, [...]
In March of 2015, I wrote a Universal Cargo blog post about how the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) should pay damages for what the union did at the Port of Portland. Today's [...]
The outlook on shipping through the Arctic is changing. And I'm not just talking about the changes in climate making shipping through the North Pole possible. Ocean freight carriers are coming [...]
Ocean carriers' biggest answer to meeting the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) upcoming 0.5% sulfur cap on fuel (IMO 2020) might not be the answer after all. Or better stated, it might [...]
We finally have good news on the U.S.-China trade deal front. And it isn't just President Trump saying progress is being made in negotiations either. Through a tense year-plus of tariff hikes and [...]
Maersk predicted, a couple years ago, that carrier competition would shrink to just 3 global companies. Of course, Maersk is at the top of the list of carriers expected to be left if its [...]
This is a guest post by Christina Morrison. Accurately tracking and maintaining inventory has long been one of the major challenges for warehouses and distribution centers. And as e-commerce [...]
It's probably not a good idea for a country you're fighting in a trade war to control one of your biggest ports. That's a situation that was set to happen because of COSCO Shipping's deal to buy [...]
Hagibis means speed in Tagalog — a fitting name for a super typhoon with winds of 160 miles per hour. Unfortunately, those winds are speeding toward one of the world's most populous cities, [...]
This is a guest post by Dakota Murphey. Note from the editor: While most of our blog content is focused on international shipping itself, many of Universal Cargo's blog readers and customers [...]
This is a guest post by Christina Morrison. An efficient and reliable supply chain has always been key to success in many different sectors. However, with ever-increasing competition for [...]
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