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The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) have been in contract negotiations for months. For the first several months, negotiations seemed [...]

Today’s blog is a special, exclusive interview with ILWU member David A. Griffen. The ILWU contract negotiations drag on while shippers, businesses, and international shipping industry [...]

UPDATE: Carriers are implementing Port Congestion Surcharges. Retailers fear shelves being as empty during the Christmas and holiday season as the gates pictured right after International [...]

Things are not going well with the contract negotiations between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA). The ILWU is resorting to [...]

“The International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) has initiated orchestrated slowdowns at the Pacific Northwest ports of Seattle and Tacoma, severely impacting many of the largest [...]

Struggles continue between the ILWU and Terminal 6 at the Port of Portland. An ILWU walk-off has closed the terminal. ILWU Local 40 Clerks walked off the job at 9:30 am PST, effectively [...]

Negotiations between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) could soon be over. No one expected negotiations between the ILWU and [...]

In all the joint statements from the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) the reassurance that “both parties have pledged to keep cargo [...]

Oh, ILWU contract negotiations, to what shall I compare thee? How about football! And the World Cup is over so I’m talking American football. It’s not just the world of international [...]

What are all these grumblings and rumblings about the ILWU dockworkers joining the truckers strike at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach? In Universal Cargo Management’s last blog, I [...]

There’s a strike at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and International Longshore and Warehouse Workers Union (ILWU) released the following statement [...]

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is now working without a contract at the ports along the West Coast (WC). As expected, the ILWU contract expired this week without a [...]

Obviously, the negotiations taking place in San Francisco between the ILWU and PMA are extremely pertinent to shippers who import and export in the US. The way the negotiations go have serious [...]

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s (ILWU) contract expires next week, but don’t expect negotiations between the ILWU and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) to be resolved by [...]

There are tensions at the Port of Portland. A judge’s ruling on Friday (May 30th) sparked more anger and controversy there, increasing that tension. What’s going on? I’m glad you asked. There’s a [...]

"Nobody knows anything." If I were Joe Biden, I'd make up a story about my father or grandpop telling me that when I was a kid as we all discussed blue collar issues around the dinner table. But [...]

CEO of Hapag-Lloyd Rolf Habben Jansen told CNBC that he thinks international shipping’s peak season is going to come early this year. Lori Ann LaRocco reported: “I would also expect that [...]

Time is ticking... All the way back in November, the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) warned its members to prepare for a strike in October of this year. ILA's contract, which [...]

"How can it be a spy satellite if they announce on television that it's a spy satellite?" --George Carlin If you're ever at a major U.S. port, take a look at the cranes looming over the [...]

What were Universal Cargo's top blog posts of 2023? Every year, we like to count it down from 10 to 1, classic David Letterman style. Sometimes we do the top 10 international shipping news [...]