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There may be airport fees, warehouse fees, custom clearance charges, duty/tax and door delivery charges. Of course, if your cargo is chosen for custom exam at destination, please prepare to home [...]

Yes, we have receiving warehouse near all major airports. Please let us know your cargo location and we will advise you the closest receiving warehouse.

This varies depending on the airline so please ask us. As a rule of thumb, maximum normal cargo dimensions: 120x80x60in. As the weight and size increase so will the cost. If your cargo is [...]

“Freight forwarding is a service used by companies that deal in international or multi-national import and export. While the freight forwarder doesn’t actually move the freight [...]

Yes, it’s already time to start talking about West Coast ports’ labor contract negotiations again. The import and export disruption and port congestion from the contentious 2014/2015 [...]

The actions of the world’s #1 sea freight forwarder, Kuehne + Nagel (K+N), during World War II are being called “a form of corpse robbing” by Frank Bajohr of the Munich Centre [...]

With the merger of China Cosco Group and China Shipping Group creating the shipping leviathan China Cosco Shipping Corporation Limited, changes are going to ripple across the entire international [...]

Last Wednesday, one of the world’s largest container ships ran aground in Germany’s Elbe River. The megaship has a capacity of 19,100 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) and [...]

Everyone seemed shocked on Friday (January 29th, 2016) when over 4,000 dockworkers belonging to the International Longshore Association (ILA) walked off the job at the Ports of New York and New [...]

So as not to “bury the lead” as they say in journalism, let me start this blog by stating that Amazon is entering the international shipping game as a freight forwarder. I seem [...]

There are a number of big changes happening in the international shipping industry. Just to name a few, ships have been getting much, much bigger; the Panama Canal is expanding; and carriers, the [...]

Yuan Value Continues Decrease, Rising China Market Volatility China’s renminbi, commonly referred to as the yuan, has made many headlines this last year. Big drops in value, accompanied by [...]

It just seems inescapable for shippers. There’s no way to avoid hearing the “C” word. The “C” word being, of course, congestion. Although congestion has certainly [...]

If you regularly read this blog, you probably already know international shipping is vital to the U.S. economy, job creation, and U.S. competitiveness abroad. However, if you regularly read the [...]

Since tomorrow is Christmas Eve, here is a special, early blog. Universal Cargo wishes you all a merry Christmas with “A Logistics Christmas Poem” below and happy holidays with this [...]

Residents feel betrayed. Green groups are enraged. Politicians call for change. What happened? In 2003, an anti-pollution agreement was made–well, a settlement, really–in which the [...]

“Congestion, congestion, congestion!” I can hear port owners whining about congestion getting all the attention like Jan lementing all the attention Marcia gets in the Brady Bunch. Of [...]

Congestion. After the last couple years, shippers are probably hoping to never see that word written in an international shipping article or blog again. Unfortunately, those hopes are doomed to [...]

Despite reportedly being 95% complete, there’s a good chance the Panama Canal expansion won’t be completed by April of next year as currently projected. I can hear those groans and [...]

Breakthrough in Search for El Faro At the beginning of October we blogged about the El Faro, a cargo ship that was lost in Hurricane Joaquin. Now, at the beginning of November, we share that the [...]