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This is a guest post by George McKinley. Long has the difference between cargo and freight confused those involved in the transportation industry. While both terms have similar meanings and [...]

Whether you need to move goods across the state or across the country, choosing a domestic freight forwarder to handle the job for you is a wise business move. Professionals in the freight moving [...]

President Trump signed an executive order on Friday, April 17th that includes a 90-day duty deferment on goods imported in March and April because of the COVID-19 crisis the country, along with [...]

The apparent cyber attack on MSC spotlights the increased risk of fraud, cyber attack, and cargo theft during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the middle of all this highly increased working remotely [...]

Let's take a little breather from COVID-19-related articles with this guest post by Arslan Hassan about warehousing in the digital age. This article gives a look at what you should expect from [...]

Universal Cargo's house customs broker, INLT gave a great webinar outlining the U.S. requirements around importing pandemic supplies during this COVID-19 crisis. We thought what they shared would [...]

You won't find a more complete roundup of how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting international shipping, specifically the ocean freight sector, right now than this blog post here. This [...]

We could probably all use a little good news right now. Shippers, specifically, who are seeing blank (cancelled) sailings from ocean carriers, operating hours cut at port terminals, and the risk [...]

As COVID-19 has spread from an epidemic in China to a world-wide pandemic, countries have restricted or banned the exporting of needed medical supplies such as face masks and ventilator tubes. A [...]

The following letter is being sent to Universal Cargo's customers. We're posting it here in our blog as well to make sure as many people as possible see it. Universal Cargo is committed to [...]

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 [...]

This is a guest post by Ofer Tirosh. Translation is involved in virtually every aspect of business for an international logistics company. For the domestic shipper, it is still likely that [...]

This is a guest post by Cory Levins. Food shipped internationally by sea and air across countries and continents is the most cost-effective way to transport consumable products. Frozen storage [...]

There have been a ton of blank sailings related to COVID-19, commonly referred to as the coronavirus or novel coronavirus. In fact, according to an advisory that Tommy Chan, Compliance Manager of [...]

Peter Tirschwell, in a Journal of Commerce (JOC) article, says the coronavirus outbreak is causing disruption "on a scale that has yet to be seen in container shipping’s more than 60-year [...]

This is a guest post by Cory Levins. Progress happens at an astounding pace. The world we inhabit today is very far away from the world of yesteryear. The past couple of decades have seen [...]

We promised to blog on this, so here it is... the controversy surrounding low sulfur surcharges. Big news events affecting the international shipping industry, specifically the Phase One Trade [...]

Many returned to work yesterday (February 10th) in China after the Spring Festival Holiday (Chinese New Year) shutdown was extended by the novel coronavirus that quickly spread from its epicenter [...]

It's scary. Over 7,711 people are confirmed as infected with the Wuhan coronavirus, which has already killed 170 people, according to the last numbers I saw from the New York Times. The Wuhan [...]

You could call this phase three of the Phase One Trade Agreement with China breakdown, but we won't call this post that to avoid making it sound confusing. Still, this is the third part of our [...]