International Shipping Industry Overview Part 1
Want an overview of how the international shipping industry is looking? Specifically looking at ocean freight? You’re in the right place. It’s time for a good old fashioned nerdy blog [...]
Want an overview of how the international shipping industry is looking? Specifically looking at ocean freight? You’re in the right place. It’s time for a good old fashioned nerdy blog [...]
This blog is a blog to highlight the blogs on the UCM Blog Page which are our top blogs in terms of popular blog reading. Too many blogs in that sentence? I can never tell. To narrow out blogs on [...]
This blog is a blog to highlight the blogs on the UCM Blog Page which are our top blogs in terms of popular blog reading. Too many blogs in that sentence? I can never tell. To narrow out blogs on [...]
Terrorism, terrorists, terrorist attacks… These have become common household words in the modern, post 9/11 world. We hear the words so much that perhaps we’ve gone numb to them. [...]
The U.K. government and members of the international maritime community gathered to launch the first ever London International Shipping Week according to an article from MarineLink.com. [...]
During the 3rd quarter of the year, international shipping spikes with retailers importing goods for back to school sales and the holidays. We call it the peak season. Carriers increase capacity [...]
China’s new Value Added Tax (VAT) policy is now officially in effect throughout all of the People’s Republic of China. In previous Universal Cargo Management blogs, we covered the [...]
China’s new Value Added Tax (VAT) policy is now officially in effect throughout all of the People’s Republic of China. In previous Universal Cargo Management blogs, we covered the [...]
In the spirit of Devin’s Sevens, today’s blog features the top ten resources Universal Cargo Management offers to help you with your international shipping. This is by no means a [...]
Last week we blogged about the P3 Network, an alliance between the largest three shipping container carriers in the world–Maersk, Mediterranean Shipping Co., and CMA CGM. The alliance would [...]
On Tuesday of this week, the world’s three largest container shipping carriers, Maersk, Mediterranean Shipping Co., and CMA CGM announced a long-term operational alliance on East-West trades, [...]
Let’s get in a DeLorean and travel back in time. We’ll go back 57 years. You’re standing on a dock at the busy Port of Newark as large numbers of union dockworkers load a [...]
1. Mistiming an Import or Export Timing is important for everything in life. Forinternational shipping, timing is crucial. Properly timing a shipment can be tricky for the inexperienced. This is [...]
1. Mistiming an Import or Export Timing is important for everything in life. For international shipping, timing is crucial. Properly timing a shipment can be tricky for the inexperienced. This is [...]
U.S. sanctions on Iran are about to get tougher than they already are making international shipping even harder for the country. On July 1st, new U.S. sanctions on Iran will be implemented that [...]
By Grace Bailey International shipping is not a cheap task, that’s why it’s best to use the services of one international shipping company and ideally to build a long-lasting relationship with [...]
An exterior staircase stands mangled and tilted, all that’s left of the control tower of the Genoa Port in Italy. A cargo ship crashed into the dock last week and toppled the control tower, [...]
By Grace Bailey Professional cargo moving offered by international shipping companies offers great opportunities to move pretty much anything. From vehicles to entire households, containers can [...]
Iron Man 3 just came out and perhaps you’re wondering why that’s the opening of a blog on a freight forwarder’s site. What caught our attention is the movie spent some weeks [...]
by Jared Vineyard He’s ba-aaaack. Back in November of 2011, I posted a blog on Tony Munoz, editor-in-chief of The Maritime Executive Magazine and MarEx e-Newsletter, calling President Obama out [...]