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The Iran War significantly impacts international shipping in the immediate present and potentially long-term future. If the immediate impact was summed up with one word, it would be [...]
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 [...]
A cyclone shut down operations at ports and airports in Southern China and Hong Kong the last couple days, likely causing up to a week (in some cases possibly more) in delays for shippers [...]
There’s some good news for shippers’ bottom lines where many were worried. Next month, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) will start collecting fees on China-built ships [...]
This is a guest post by Ellie Gabel. Ports play a critical role in global trade, managing the flow of goods and driving economic growth. Many are increasingly opting to run on electricity to meet [...]
This is a guest post by Ellie Gabel. Worldwide, major global ports are increasingly embracing digitalization. Artificial intelligence, internet-enabled sensors, and modern networking technologies [...]
International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) President Harold Daggett credited President Trump as "key to the union negotiating [Wednesday's] landmark agreement" that prevented a second ILA [...]
We have less than a month before the East and Gulf Coast ports could shut down from another International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) strike. The deadline for a new master contract to be [...]
With less than a month and a half to go before the deal deadline to prevent another dockworker strike shutting down U.S. East and Gulf Coast ports, negotiations remain halted between the [...]
We've gone 4 days with British Columbian ports shut down, and there is no movement towards reopening them. In fact, multiple news outlets use the word "silence" when describing the situation and [...]
Ports shut down yesterday as a result of a union strike and lockout over contract negotiations. It sounds familiar, but we're not talking about the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) [...]
The International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) went on strike today, shutting down U.S. East and Gulf Coast ports. President Biden's words in response to the strike are not those of a [...]
The International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) is officially on strike, shutting down ports all along the East and Gulf Coast ports. Read more in Universal Cargo's blog.
18 days... The clock is ticking. With about two and a half weeks until a planned strike from the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) shuts down all the East and Gulf Coast ports of [...]
Last week, shippers thought they could feel a little more optimistic about cargo continuing to flow through East and Gulf Coast ports. After all, the International Longshoremen's Association [...]
There's about one month until the master contract expires on September 30th for dockworkers in the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA). The ILA maintains it will go on strike, shutting [...]
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 [...]
Early this morning, a container ship called the Dali left the Port of Baltimore for Sri Lanka, but things went horribly wrong. About a half hour later, the ship lost power and crashed into the [...]
Time is ticking... All the way back in November, the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) warned its members to prepare for a strike in October of this year. ILA's contract, which [...]
As we continue to see the beginnings of how the recent and ongoing changes to U.S. shipping law affect businesses’ imports and exports as well as carriers’ and other industry stakeholders’ [...]
