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This is a guest post by Kayla Hyde. Logistics and supply chain management is becoming increasingly important in today's fast-paced business world. Outsourcing logistics services could help many [...]

After a couple years of out of control, skyrocketing freight rates, ocean freight pricing finally came tumbling down. Freight rates have gone from peaks, including cargo routes getting carriers [...]

This is a guest post by Robin Kix. [NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: This post isn't necessarily about international shipping as Universal Cargo's blog is normally focused, even though international [...]

This is a guest post by Kenneth Seamus. A lot of people seem convinced that logistics are simply about moving goods from one place to another. That all they need in order to boast of having [...]

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 [...]

The House of Representatives passed two bills yesterday (Wednesday, November 30th) to prevent a rail strike by forcing rail worker unions to accept the tentative rail worker agreement while also [...]

Things moved closer to a rail strike on Monday after the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers-Transportation Division (SMART-TD) voted to reject the [...]

Another union has voted to reject the tentative labor agreement the White House pressured union and railroad negotiators to reach back in September, at the last moment before unions could, and [...]

The can keeps getting kicked down the road on the potential rail strike that would cripple U.S. supply chains. The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division (BMWED) has extended its [...]

Twelve is the magic number. All twelve rail worker unions have to ratify agreements with the railroads to ensure a rail strike doesn't screech U.S. supply chains to a halt. The count is now to [...]

Shippers are preparing themselves for the more and more likely outcome of a rail strike in November. Union Pacific CEO Lance Fritz went on CNBC, laughing off the idea of a perspective strike on [...]

Fears are rising again over a supply-chain-halting potential rail strike as the third largest rail worker union voted to reject the tentative agreement reached just weeks ago. More and more, it [...]

This is a guest post by Tony Diaz. When businesses deal with shipping, they are often faced with various options. From multiple types of transport to different supply chains, shipping can be a [...]

This is a guest post by Jake Rheude. Peak season is here, and supply chain management processes for it are already in place. But as every logistics professional has learned, an entire chain can [...]

News broke on Thursday of last week that a tentative agreement had been reached between the railroads and the two largest rail worker unions, BLET and SMART-TD, preventing a [...]

Just a day ahead of a potential rail strike that would have crippled U.S. supply chains, the railroads and the last two rail worker unions reached a tentative agreement. Shippers, and anyone [...]

On Friday, September the 16th, the mandatory cooling-off period on negotiations between U.S. railroads and their employees' unions ends, and the unions will be able to strike. That's just three [...]

A few of the smaller unions of rail workers reached a deal on Monday (August 29th) with the U.S. railroad carriers. This is a good step toward avoiding a rail strike that would cripple supply [...]

Strike, strike, strike! The U.S. supply chain is in a triple strike threat from truckers, dockworkers, and rail workers. Normally, it's three strikes and you're out, but this is no game. Any one [...]

This is a guest post by Adrian Jacobs. It is the dream of every business involved in logistics to have a robust and failure-proof supply chain. Unfortunately, this is simply impossible. What you [...]