Got Marine Cargo Insurance? [What The Freight?!? – Issue 002]
Join Harry Ocean as he neurotically navigates the wavy waters of cargo importing and exporting in “What the Freight?!?” In this issue, Harry Ocean speaks to Billy O’Lading about [...]
Join Harry Ocean as he neurotically navigates the wavy waters of cargo importing and exporting in “What the Freight?!?” In this issue, Harry Ocean speaks to Billy O’Lading about [...]
Join Harry Ocean as he neurotically navigates the wavy waters of cargo importing and exporting in “What the Freight?!?” In this issue, Harry Ocean gets container shipping rates for a [...]
Q: What is a freight forwarder? A: Freight forwarding is a service used by companies that deal in international or multi-national import and export. While the freight forwarder doesn’t [...]
Furniture Market picking up? It is official, the January 2011 Las Vegas Market furniture trade show sent some positive signals within the Industry. It’s a great family activity [...]
In response to the thwarted Yemen cargo bombing plot that happened on October, 29 2010 the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is quickly enacting new security regulations related to Air [...]
In trying to make sense of recent sea freight and air cargo rate fluctuations, we’ve gathered information from several sources and made the following observations:1) Rates are going up and [...]
The Biden Administration took a page out of the Trump Administration handbook this week as it announced big tariff hikes on imports from China. Regular readers of Universal Cargo's blog won't be [...]
Yesterday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Baltimore used explosives on the part of the collapsed Francis Key Bridge that's been holding the giant container ship Dali trapped for over a [...]
A couple weeks ago, I posted an article about what AI "thinks" about international shipping. It contained a "conversation" I had with AI, where I asked it questions about international shipping. [...]
The last post was about how nobody knows anything about what will happen with the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) contract negotiations, with its potential to highly disrupt [...]
"Nobody knows anything." If I were Joe Biden, I'd make up a story about my father or grandpop telling me that when I was a kid as we all discussed blue collar issues around the dinner table. But [...]
For today's blog, I thought we'd do something a little bit different. The artificial intelligence (AI) craze has hit. Despite all those warnings we got from movies in the 80's and 90's, everyone [...]
This is a guest post by Eric Laurence. Trade policies and tariffs significantly impact the global economy, affecting various industries, including shipping. Recent changes in tariffs can [...]
In a speech, yesterday, to union workers in Pennsylvania, President Biden called for U.S. trade representative Katherine Tai to consider tripling tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum if her [...]
Anti-Israel protests essentially shut down the Port of Oakland yesterday, and that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Such protests have taken aim at ports around the world, to varying degrees [...]
While we've made mention of its status in some articles, we haven't done a full update on the Panama Canal situation since a February post. That post was a much needed moment of good news for [...]
What's been happening with shipping on the East Coast since the tragic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge? I'm glad you asked. Let's get into the updates... There were close to 100 ships [...]
There’s a lot happening in international shipping right now. Rather than make shippers scramble from news site to news site to see what all is going on, we’ve rounded up the top [...]
Early this morning, a container ship called the Dali left the Port of Baltimore for Sri Lanka, but things went horribly wrong. About a half hour later, the ship lost power and crashed into the [...]
CEO of Hapag-Lloyd Rolf Habben Jansen told CNBC that he thinks international shipping’s peak season is going to come early this year. Lori Ann LaRocco reported: “I would also expect that [...]