This is a guest post by Jake Rheude. The final days of 2020 ended with some of China's highest container rates in recent memory coupled with port congestion, space demands, and other metrics [...]

There's a bigger ship backup at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, with more than a score and a half of container ships anchored and waiting to birth off the coast of Southern California [...]

This is a guest post by Paul Zhang. The epidemic made the entirety of 2020 beyond all expectations. Global trade stirred by the "black swan" of the epidemic ushered in a great recession and fell [...]

Transpacific freight rates, and freight rates in general, were astronomical in 2020, rising and rising until, at last, they reached a plateau around the end of September/beginning of October. [...]

International shipping in 2021 continues right where 2020 left off. That sentence sounds obvious, but what it means is an abnormal start to the year when it comes to ocean freight shipping, and [...]

For many, today couldn't get here quickly enough. At midnight tonight, we say goodbye to 2020 and hello to 2021, hoping for a better year. Traditionally, Universal Cargo has said goodbye to years [...]

I've typed the words "ocean freight carriers are notoriously unreliable" so many times over the last decade of writing in Universal Cargo's blog that I should probably have the statement [...]

Shippers importing goods from anywhere in the world – but especially China and other Asian countries – should expect to experience delays and fees. Right now, ports in Asia and the U.S. are [...]

On November 30th, the MV One Apus had a massive shipping container collapse as it was hit by a storm and massive waves in the Pacific Ocean on its way to the Port of Long Beach. We blogged about [...]

In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the incredible opportunity presented to furniture importers and sellers by spiking demand that is predicted to stay strong over the next few years. In Part [...]

Right now, demand for furniture is soaring, but supply chain disruptions are making it difficult for furniture importers and sellers to meet that demand. Today we continue to look at this moment [...]

Furniture demand shot up in 2020, and the increase in demand does not look like a momentary spike ready to plummet. Demand for furniture should continue to be high for the next few years. While [...]

Click Here for Free Freight Rate Pricing 2020 hasn't just seen a strong peak season for the international shipping industry, it has seen a shipping boom, particularly in Asia to U.S. shipping. [...]

On Monday night, a violent storm hit an Ocean Network Express (ONE) containership on its way to the Port of Long Beach. A large number of shipping containers were lost overboard. Others were [...]

The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) is increasing how often ocean freight carriers from the three major alliances that dominate global shipping must file trade data. Shipping lines from these [...]