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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 [...]

This is a guest post by Jake Cavanaugh. A shipment misses its deadline. Customs flags the wrong forms. A truck arrives at the wrong warehouse dock. These things don’t just happen in theory. They [...]

I was curious what news and blog sources artificial intelligence (AI) would rank as the best resources for importers and exporters, so I went to the three biggest AI chatbots – ChatGPT, Microsoft [...]

What were Universal Cargo's top blog posts of 2023? Every year, we like to count it down from 10 to 1, classic David Letterman style. Sometimes we do the top 10 international shipping news [...]

Nearly three full years after the railroad unions went into negotiations with the railroads for new contracts, resolution has been reached. Last week, I blogged about the House of Representatives [...]

This post concludes our long Jones Act blog series, recapping the major points of the debate we covered and putting them all in one easy reference point. We began this series after President [...]

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 [...]

Don't know what Universal Cargo's Annual Turkey Day Blog is all about? It can probably best be summed up in a poem. Here's how that poem starts:

Every year about this [...]

Want to have an article you've written published in Universal Cargo's blog? This post will help you achieve that goal.

After spending years building our blog into a recognized, [...]

Maersk is the largest carrier by capacity in international shipping and clearly the leader of the industry. We’ve talked about this before in Universal Cargo’s blog: The moves Maersk [...]

Right now, NFL Network is in the middle of releasing its top 100 list of football players as voted by fellow players in the National Football League. While Universal Cargo has no chance of making [...]

It’s finally here! Universal Cargo General Manager Raymond Rau’s favorite blog of the year: Universal Cargo’s Happy Thanksgiving Turkey Blog! You might call today Thanksgiving, [...]

“And now for something completely different…” We take a break from our regular blogs to reach out to our readers and shippers everywhere, asking you how we can serve your needs [...]

Who says international shipping has to be boring? For many, international shipping is a fascinating subject; however, for many, many, many more, it is not. Yet, over the last several years, [...]