Maersk doesn't believe any of the ocean freight carriers outside of itself and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) have the ability to stand alone. For this reason, the company doesn't believe [...]
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 [...]
With the first half of 2020 marked by COVID-19 shutdowns around the world, first in China and eventually in the U.S., ocean carriers' biggest strategy for dealing with decreased shipping demand [...]
There is so much potential for what blockchain technology can bring to the international shipping industry. So much potential, in fact, there's a fight for who can successfully bring blockchain [...]
TOP 10 INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING NEWS STORIES OF 2017 - Universal Shipping NewsWatch this video on YouTube This is it! Universal Cargo’s final blog of 2017. This year certainly seems to have [...]
Last month, Maersk said it expects carrier competition to shrink to only three global companies. It’s possible that Maersk is wrong, but it’s hard not to take the words and [...]
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 [...]
THE Alliance members are “falling further behind in the megamax vessel stakes,” Alphaliner was quoted as saying in an article by Mike Wackett in the Loadstar. The headlining point of [...]
Now that international shipping is dominated by three carrier alliances, the 2M, OCEAN Alliance, and THE Alliance, many shippers are worried about freight rate collusion between the shipping [...]
Despite the reshuffling of ocean carriers into just three alliances–the 2M, Ocean Alliance, and THE Alliance–being described as a disaster, U.S. shippers have seen little impact on [...]
This is it! Universal Cargo’s last blog of 2016. What better way to close out the year than with a look back on the top international shipping stories of 2016. Below you’ll find a [...]
News broke this weekend that Japan’s three biggest shipping companies are merging. On October 31st, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. (MOL), Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK), and Kawasaki Kisen [...]
Is Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) no longer joining Maersk and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) in their carrier alliance? “The memorandum of understanding is only a paper to agree to discuss. [...]
