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Is international shipping manipulating weather? Controlling the weather has often captured our imagination in popular fiction. Examples include the upcoming movie Geostorm about weather [...]

Guest Post by Kevin Hill Do you transport goods or commodities by sea? If yes, then you must be aware of the various challenges that come with transporting the containers safely. You can adopt [...]

It’s no secret that pollution in China is bad. If you ever visit the country, you’ll probably notice some people walking around wearing surgical masks because of the haze from [...]

The U.S. hasn’t seen a hurricane as powerful as Hurricane Harvey hit in a decade. It came right through the Gulf of Mexico, making landfall as a category 4 hurricane, destroying homes, [...]

Trucking, obviously, is crucial to the supply chain and international shipping as a whole. Therefore, when there’s news that affects the trucking industry, it also affects the international [...]

Imagine going into a restaurant, being seated, and when the waiter asks to take your order, you request the check. Seems kind of odd right? Like maybe a few steps were missed? Well, that’s a lot [...]

It has been a dark time for ocean carriers. Investing heavily in megaships–ships so large they can destroy entire planets–carriers created capacity greatly surpassing disappointing [...]

Read to the end for a tip that could make your business stand out from the competition and increase your profits. For those of you who don’t know, Universal Cargo’s headquarters is [...]

It’s hard to believe it, but a year has already passed since the unveiling of the expanded Panama Canal. Plagued with delays and increases in costs, it once seemed the expansion project [...]

On Sunday (July 9th, 2017), Cosco Shipping Holdings Co., Ltd. (Cosco); Shanghai International Port Group Co., Ltd (SIPG); and Orient Overseas International Limited (OOIL) announced jointly that [...]

Guest Post by Dakota Murphey NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: While Universal Cargo’s blog usually focuses on international shipping for businesses or news in the international shipping industry, we [...]

Yesterday (Monday, June 19th), truckers formed picket lines at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, going on strike over their classification as independent contractors. If this sounds [...]

Zero emissions. That’s the goal the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are working toward. Such a feat might have seemed impossible ten years ago. Or perhaps like the science fiction [...]

Back in March, we told you about your chance to take a break from shipping and golf with the pros. Universal Cargo CEO Devin Burke‘s son, Micah Burke, is a pro golfer. He ran a pro-am golf [...]

How can carriers reduce CO2 emissions, consume less fuel, and add extra protection on their container ships? How about a windshield? That’s right, a windshield on a container ship. [...]

It’s back! The most entertaining way to look at definitions of international shipping terms: comparing Logistics Glossary definitions to their Urban Dictionary counterparts. Let’s [...]

Despite the reshuffling of ocean carriers into just three alliances–the 2M, Ocean Alliance, and THE Alliance–being described as a disaster, U.S. shippers have seen little impact on [...]

President Trump signed two executive orders last week to attack trade abuses and the United States’ trade deficit. The executive order going after trade abuses is focused on enforcement of [...]

It’s official. People are obsolete. Okay, not really. But by watching the video above that was posted on Youtube by James Vincent, you can see how technology is taking over shipping. [...]

On Thursday (March 23, 2017), legislation was introduced to stop labor slowdowns at U.S. ports. The legislation is aptly called the Prevent Labor Union Slowdowns Act (PLUS). It was introduced [...]