This will be the last blog I post in 2021, so I can spend the holidays with family. What better time to do a look back at the year's top international shipping news stories? This year, stories [...]
An intriguing story broke in the international shipping industry at the start of this week. A shipper made a move that has the potential to be disruptive to ocean carriers, who run the world's [...]
There are three international shipping news stories making headlines this week that shippers should know about. These are the kind of stories that affect U.S. importers and exporters' bottom [...]
Shippers importing goods from anywhere in the world – but especially China and other Asian countries – should expect to experience delays and fees. Right now, ports in Asia and the U.S. are [...]
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 [...]
Before 2020 hits, let's take a look back at 2019. What happened in international shipping this year didn't happen in a bubble. Just like events of years past affected this year, the things [...]
At Universal Cargo, we're always happy to provide shipping quotes; however, today's quotes are of a completely different kind than we normally dispense.
Instead of freight rate [...]
All the rumors have led up to this… A big, new carrier alliance has been announced: The Ocean Alliance. After China Cosco Group and China Shipping Group merged to form China Cosco [...]
It’s hard to believe we are only hours away from 2016. 2015 seems to have come to an end incredibly quickly, but a lot happened in the international shipping industry this year. So much has [...]
As delegates from almost 200 countries, 195 to be exact, try to work together in Paris to negotiate a global climate agreement, the big news surrounding the latest draft of their global climate [...]
International shipping is a complicated business. That’s why freight forwarders exist; they help shippers with all the international shipping details so shippers can focus on the details of [...]
Here’s another story for our “international shipping fought the law and the law won” annals (always be careful to include both n’s when using that word). The Federal [...]
Today we take a break from blogging about all the things making the port congestion situation worse for shippers like ILWU job action, carriers’ congestion surcharges, and truckers strikes [...]
I’ll miss you, P3 Network, if only for your ability to give me a dependable topic to write blogs about (the P3 Network was prominently featured in at least 10 blogs here on the UCM [...]
Today’s blog is a little bit different. Rather than looking at a news story that affects international shipping or giving international shipping tips, I’m going to share a list of [...]
Snow in Florida, record breaking drought in California, January temperatures in the 60’s in Alaska… Talking about the weather is not just a topic to break the ice or an awkward [...]
Piracy is a major international shipping problem. Asylum seekers may be adding to the dangers for cargo ship crews that are helping shippers import and export goods. Read Universal Cargo blog on [...]
Japan’s “Big 3” shipping companies—K Line, MOL, and NYK— joined forces to form the joint venture Ocean Network Express (ONE). And starting today (February 1st, 2018) you can [...]
Tensions have been high in the South China Sea for some time as China aggressively pushes its territorial claim on almost the whole body of water, conflicting with claims [...]
Almost two years ago, I posted Hunger Games of the Sea, a blog about all the carrier alliances that were forming as international shipping companies struggled for dominance and just to stay [...]