Book Review: Factory Man by Beth Macy
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local – and Helped Save an American Town This book is the story of the Bassett family in south western Virginia from just [...]
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local – and Helped Save an American Town This book is the story of the Bassett family in south western Virginia from just [...]
There’s always an element of uncertainty in the international shipping industry. There are always factors that make freight rates volatile, but the 2M, Ocean 3, G6, and CKYHE carrier [...]
Maersk and Mediterranean Shipping Co. (MSC) have received approval from the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) for their 2M Vessel Sharing Agreement (VSA) and now await approval from China. [...]
You never know what will be found in a shipping container. The recently seized contents of one shipping container led to an unexpected, 46-year reunion. Universal Bizargo, Universal Cargo’s [...]
Goodbye P3, hello 2M. It didn’t take long after China halted plans for the P3 Network, what would have been an operational alliance between the three biggest carriers in the international [...]
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 [...]
Go West, young man. Rarely have words carried such weight as what some would call the most influential sentence of the 19th century, adding that it affected the course of the United States’ [...]
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 [...]
Never let them tell you international shipping isn’t dangerous. The dangers of shipping cargo across the seas and oceans from port to port are ever present, even without terrorism or piracy. At [...]
March Madness is over and you thought you were done with brackets. Wrong. As wrong as my NCAA bracket. To give you a carrier alliance overview, here comes the 2014 Carrier Craziness Bracket! [...]
by Jared Vineyard Many Chinese exporters are making millions of dollars in annual sales on eBay, Amazon, and similar sites. But that’s not stopping U.S. importers from selling millions of [...]
by Jared Vineyard The Asian Exporters Index from eBay revealed many Chinese exporters are making over a million dollars annually selling on eBay. What’s happening is many businesses and [...]
There’s a heated debate over a legal right happening in the U.S. There are several, aren’t there? I’m not referring to the pro-life/pro-choice abortion debate. Nor same-sex [...]
This blog is the third part in a series about the G6, P3, and CKYH carrier alliances. Check out Part 1: Hunger Games of the Sea: G6, P3, & CKYH Alliances Fight for Shipping Dominance and Part [...]
This is the follow up to last week’s blog, Hunger Games of the Sea: G6, P3, & CKYH Alliances Fight for Shipping Dominance. In an arena of oceans and seas, giant ships filled with [...]
Is it a further sign of the global economic turnaround? It could certainly be construed that way, but probably has more to do with incentives from China. The Wall Street Journal reports that [...]
by Jared Vineyard Carriers know exactly what shippers want for the holidays: increased shipping rates. Merry Christmas! Actually, most holiday international shipping has already taken place to [...]
So you need to find out the cost of international shipping. Maybe you’re getting into international business,importing goods from China to sell here in the U.S. or exporting your goods to [...]
Since Universal Cargo Management posts a blog every Tuesday and Thursday, I find myself writing an International Shipping Thanksgiving Day Blog every year. As you can imagine with such a perfect [...]
Go back to 2011. Carriers experience losses in the billions of dollars. In 2012, those shipping companies put together strategies to raise freight rates and regain profitability. General Rate [...]