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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 [...]

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 [...]

U.S. Started Assisting Ships to Cross the Strait of Hormuz this Week While Star Wars nerds, like me, were saying “May the 4th be with you,” family and friends of crew members and [...]

Let the fallout from the Supreme Court’s decision against President Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) tariffs begin. Today, as the halt of IEEPA tariff [...]

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 [...]

Universal has an acronym that spells out our core values: C.A.R.E. Those values are Customers, Available, Resourceful, and Evolving. In the spirit of evolving to be even more available to serve [...]

Barely more than a week ago, Universal Cargo’s blog post was about falling freight rates. Freight rates had seen 16 consecutive weeks of decline and were at their lowest since January of [...]

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 [...]

According to S&P Global data shared in the Journal of Commerce (JOC), July 5th freight rates from Asia to the U.S. West Coast (USWC) were up 350% compared to the same time last year. Asia to U.S. [...]