Uncategorized

Import fraud enforcement is at an all-time high. Consider following: Why the Crackdown? Large factors in government enforcement increases on tariff evasion and import fraud are the creation of [...]

The trade war with Canada is escalating. Ontario Premier Doug Ford imposed a 25% tariff on electricity to the U.S., which Michigan, New York, and Minnesota import. We cover this, President [...]

Are you ready for a top 10?! 2024 is almost over! Some can't believe how fast it went while for others it couldn't end soon enough. Either way, we here at Universal Cargo are wishing for you to [...]

Congestion at the Port of Singapore hit critical levels over these last couple weeks. Container ships are having to anchor and wait to dock, with wait-time estimates of up to seven days. This is [...]

The Wall Street Journal headlined an article yesterday with "Ocean Shipping Rates Have Plunged 60% This Year." Costas Paris reports in the article: "The cost to ship a 40-foot container from [...]

Both the Loadstar and the Journal of Commerce (JOC) report the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) have broken media silence on their [...]

With Universal Cargo launching a new air freight division, I caught up with CEO Devin Burke and Charles Freeman, Business Development, who's heading up the division to find out more. They [...]

This is a guest post by Marcus Dokken. International trade was, and still is, one of the main drivers of economic expansion. We might even say that it's directly responsible for shaping the [...]

This is a guest post by John Nicks. The pandemic triggered many changes in various industries all across the world. One of the most affected areas is shipping costs. As the prices go up, the [...]

On November 30th, the MV One Apus had a massive shipping container collapse as it was hit by a storm and massive waves in the Pacific Ocean on its way to the Port of Long Beach. We blogged about [...]

Ocean freight carriers are supposed to lose billions of dollars in 2020, right? Wrong. They're going to make billions. Probably. As long as things continue the way they're going. Wait. [...]

There have been concerns with all the shutdowns happening to fight the spread of COVID-19, the novel Wuhan coronavirus, that ports are also closing. It's not surprising people would think ports [...]

Last month, we finally saw

The trade war between the U.S. and China drags on without an end in sight. However, things are not all bad news for U.S. importers. Shippers who import from China got good news last week as Trump [...]

More than 8,000 UPS drivers will be trained by Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT) “how to recognize and respond to signs of human trafficking activity” according to an article from Transport [...]

2017 international shipping predictions Happy New Year! Welcome to 2017, shippers. Last week, in the last blog of 2016, we took a look back at the top stories of the year. This week, in the first [...]

Thanks for coming back! In our previous blog, we went over how a freight forwarder can help with Amazon shipments. This blog is going to cover the specific requirements that Amazon has for their [...]

During these trying times for ocean carriers in the international shipping industry, carrier alliances dominate the shipping lines, sharing ship operations to reduce costs. On the outside looking [...]

Guest Post By Kevin Hill The freight management industry witnessed some massive changes in 2016 and some of these are likely to last beyond 2017. Shipping services and logistics providers are now [...]

The Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) are officially going to meet to discuss an early contract extension. Sort of. In a joint press [...]