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 [...]
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 [...]
In the last blog, we began a chapter by chapter look at the new Phase One Trade Agreement with China. That post gave an introduction with background and looked at chapters 1-4 of the [...]
This is a guest post by Christina Morrison. Accurately tracking and maintaining inventory has long been one of the major challenges for warehouses and distribution centers. And as e-commerce [...]
This is a guest post by Dakota Murphey. Note from the editor: While most of our blog content is focused on international shipping itself, many of Universal Cargo's blog readers and customers [...]
This is a guest post by Sharmistha Sarker.
Third-party logistics has always been an integral part of supply chain management. Increase in international trading activities and use of [...]
Big news hit in January when it was announced Maersk and IBM were forming a joint venture. The giants in international shipping and information technology, respectively, were introducing a [...]
Guest Blog by Mark Long A lot of companies already have their own logistic managers. These managers help the company to make a number of logistic decisions. However, such companies may also need [...]
The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have long reigned as the “Asia Gateway” to the United States. When it comes to imports from Asia, the twin ports in Southern California have [...]
This international shipping story is just plain sad. It starts innocuously enough: “The first container ship to call on the Port of Portland in three months arrived last Tuesday and stayed [...]
On June 30th, the U.S. Export-Import Bank’s charter expired for the first time since President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the federal credit agency by executive order in 1934. [...]
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 [...]
Get ready for a change that is right on the horizon in China. Goodbye business tax (BT), hello value added tax (VAT). It’s not quite as simple as that. Are taxes ever really that simple? [...]
Recently it has almost seemed as if all the ocean carrier lines have been acting in congruity, even unison, to affect prices of shipping cargo containers internationally. However, in a shrewd [...]