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This is a guest post by Dakota Murphy

Note from the editor: While this article breaks from Universal Cargo's traditional international shipping fare, it is still relevant for most of [...]

For obvious reasons, U.S. shippers who import from China tend to be against the tariff increases President Trump is imposing on China. There have been hearings over items listed in the new tariff [...]

The international shipping industry has traditionally been a male-dominated one. In fact, it still seems to be largely behind when it comes to gender equality in the workplace. 

A [...]

This is a Guest Post by Alana Downer

Currency is somewhat unpredictable, and when you have transactions taking place in multiple countries using different currencies, keeping track [...]

A week ago, we posted a blog from Universal Cargo's own Cherry Chen outlining the section 301 tariff exclusion process shippers can use to request a one year tariff exclusion on products they [...]

Trade wars are often thought of as lose-lose situations. However, President Trump obviously thinks the U.S. can win the trade war he has ignited with China. And it looks like he isn't alone in [...]

Right now, shipping containers are being used to violate the basic human rights of thousands of people.

We've posted before about uses of shipping containers for purposes other than [...]

Whether you’re new to Universal Cargo’s blog or a regular reader, this post will help you navigate through to the most useful and popular articles we’ve posted here over the [...]

This is a Guest Post by Cory Levins, Director of Business Development for Air Sea Containers.

It is remarkable that in an age of flight and space travel, most cargo transport around [...]

This is a Guest Post from Betty White of Moving Offices San Diego.

If you need your goods transported overseas but are worried about handling the process, you need to hire a reliable [...]

It is a clichéd joke that Canadians are so polite they'll apologize to you if you insult them. It seems the U.S. tested that cliché's punchline on a national level.

The U.S. insulted [...]

In a statement on Monday, President Donald Trump announced plans to pursue a whopping additional $400 billion worth of tariffs to the $50 billion dollars worth already planned on imports from [...]

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 [...]

This is a Guest Post by Daniel Moore

selling overseasInternational goods trading is a well-known and popular business today. This is the reason that leading international brands have [...]

Fuel costs have significantly increased this year, causing many carriers to post first-quarter losses for 2018.

At least, carriers are saying higher fuel bunker prices are the cause [...]

Barely more than a week after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin went on Fox News Sunday and said the trade war with China is on hold, the White House announced in a statement today (May 29th) [...]

This is a guest post by Jake Rheude

3PL WarehouseEveryone is looking for a leg up in their business, but we often focus too much internally to see how existing partners can help us [...]

Worried about a trade war with China? Here's some good news.

“We’re putting the trade war on hold,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in an interview on Fox News [...]

For those of you who don't know, Universal Cargo's CEO Devin Burke and President Shirley Burke have a son who is a pro golfer. Micah Burke, who put off joining the family shipping business to [...]

Uncertainty continues in steel and aluminum related markets as President Trump delayed tariffs on imports of these important materials from select U.S. ally countries.

In a [...]