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The International Maritime Organization (IMO), with its IMO 2020 regulation capping ships' sulfur emissions at 0.5% and heavily publicized goal of cutting in half international shipping's 2008 [...]

This blog will get into what's happening with freight rates, cargo volume behavior, and implications those have for shippers through the rest of the year and into 2021. But first – and I promise [...]

It looks like the practices of ocean carriers during the pandemic and the resulting record-high freight rates have caught the attention of American and Chinese maritime regulatory [...]

How about a positive headline for 2020? It's a great year for ocean freight carriers in the international shipping industry. Transpacific cargo volume continues to surge here in the peak season, [...]

If you go on Facebook and scroll through, you'll probably find a lot of people bemoaning 2020 as a terrible year. For ocean freight carriers, on the other hand, 2020 has been one of the greatest [...]

A month ago, Greg Miller reported in an American Shipper article that not only had freight rates finally stopped rising but they also had dropped a bit. He posed the question, "Is this a new [...]

The massive explosion at the Port of Beirut last week shined a light on a problem in international shipping that has long been hidden in the shadows. The blast – which killed 171 people and [...]

This is a guest post by Brad Smith. Swift technological developments over the past 30 years have provided critical benefits to multiple global industries, with international shipping being no [...]

No-roll premiums? What's that? Hopefully, as a shipper, you've never heard of a no-roll premium. Unfortunately, many shippers are finding out about them right now as they're being forced to [...]

A couple weeks ago, we posted a blog about how ocean freight carriers, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, went from being projected to lose as much as $23 billion in 2020 to looking like [...]

We're fast approaching what's known as the peak season for international shipping. Traditionally, August and September are huge months for the international shipping industry as retailers stock [...]

This is a guest post by Arslan Hassan. Businesses that cater to customers on a global scale require an efficient and powerful logistics system that ensures the safe delivery of their products. [...]

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. [...]

Importers and exporters are on their way to getting a stronger voice with the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC). By its own description, the FMC "is the independent federal agency [...]

From when the novel coronavirus outbreak in China first started registering in international shipping news, stories have been published about how ocean freight carriers could or would lose [...]

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 [...]

Let's take a break from the relentless COVID-19 news, kind of, to talk about a topic we thought would be dominating this year's international shipping news: IMO 2020. Leading up to the [...]

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 [...]

2020's international shipping news cycle so far has been an exercise in good news, bad news. To get at what I'm talking about, let me introduce you to a fun book by Jeff Mack I read [...]