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On Sunday (June 14th), President Trump announced a peace deal with Iran via a Truth Social post: The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete. Congratulations to all! I hereby fully [...]

Happy World Trade Week! Never heard of it? You’re not alone. I’ve only peripherally heard of it, and I write a blog about international shipping. I don’t think we’ve ever [...]

This is a guest post by Luka Marin. Peak season can make overseas shipping feel less predictable. Rates move quickly. Space can tighten before many businesses expect it. Schedules can also change [...]

Halted Strikes on Iran Today could have been a day of war escalation. President Trump posted on Truth Social that there was a military attack on Iran scheduled, but he held it off at the request [...]

Do you know what country is the number one trading partner for the U.S.? It’s not China. It’s not Canada…. 2026 marks the third consecutive year that Mexico is the United [...]

Ocean freight rates have been elevated since the start of the Iran War. However, as we’ve covered in Universal Cargo’s blog, international shipping’s capacity is not stretched [...]

With the two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, Iran has reopened the Strait of Hormuz, but shipping traffic through it is reportedly at a trickle. According to a Reuters article by [...]

This is a guest post by Jake Herrera. During each year, shipping volume swings wildly. It only takes weeks for freight availability to go from comfortable to tight. This often happens when [...]

Summit Delay Request Many refer to the current trade deal with China as a trade truce. Shippers would be forgiven for thinking of it as tenuous after the tension of escalating tariffs of trade [...]

Competition on the waters of international shipping looks to be shrinking again as the world’s fifth-largest ocean freight carrier, Hapag-Lloyd, made a buyout deal yesterday to acquire the [...]

We don’t usually post on Fridays, but the U.S. and Taiwan inked a trade deal yesterday, so you get a bonus mini-post. Frank Fang wrote a nice, full article on the trade deal for the Epoch [...]

Trade Deal Between the U.S. and Bangladesh The White House announced a trade deal with Bangladesh. In a joint statement with the country yesterday (February 9th), the White House said the [...]

This morning (February 2nd), President Trump announced a trade deal with India. Here are the details the president gave about the deal: This trade deal announcement came off of a conversation [...]

This is a guest post by Alexander Bley. International shipping often feels like a gamble. You book a container and schedule the pickup. You expect your goods to arrive on time. Then, you receive [...]

This is a guest post by Ellie Gabel. Many overseas shipments stall before leaving the factory. Oftentimes, it is due to supplier gaps, which cause costly delays and forced rework. Whether it is a [...]

Universal Cargo presents the Cantankerous Journeys of Cramer the Container! This funny new YouTube series follows the misadventures of Cramer the Container as he experiences and witnesses all the [...]

2025 is drawing to a close, and that means it’s time to look back at the Top 10 Universal Cargo blog posts of the year! It’s always a fun exercise to count down the top 10 – David [...]

The blog this week is all about catching up on the trade deals that happened last week (and one from the week prior). On Tuesday, we covered the trade deal the Trump Administration made at the [...]

This is a guest post by Dave Brobey. In every part of doing business, one can expect to find costs that seem to appear right out of nowhere. They’ll hide in contracts, invoices, and polite [...]

Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for and against President Trump’s authority to utilize tariffs as he’s done thus far in his second term. Headlines that [...]