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We haven’t even gotten over Hurricane Harvey, and already another deadly hurricane is headed for U.S. landfall. Hurricane Irma is a category 5 storm that is likely to make landfall in [...]

The biggest news to hit U.S. Shippers and international shipping last week was also the biggest hurricane to hit the U.S. in a decade. We shared how Hurricane Harvey hurt the supply chain last [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In this age when people and businesses are more and more dependent upon technology, it seems no company–no matter how big–is invulnerable to cyber attack. Or is it cyberattack? Or [...]

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 [...]

This is unprecedented news. The International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) is actually going to vote on an early contract extension. Chris Dupin reports in American Shipper: The [...]

It’s here! The event of the season for furniture importers and sellers… actually, the furniture industry as a whole. The High Point Market! Here at Universal Cargo, we love the High [...]

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. [...]

Shippers are worried about more than just their March Madness brackets right now. What has them so worried? The risk of next month’s big carrier alliance reshuffle causing freight [...]

  Freight forwarders and non-vessel operators (NVOs) have been under a great deal of scrutiny for their lack of automation lately. For anything consumers want, they can go online and with a [...]

This is it! Universal Cargo’s last blog of 2016. What better way to close out the year than with a look back on the top international shipping stories of 2016. Below you’ll find a [...]

Donald Trump, seemingly despite all polls and predictions, has been elected the next president of the United States, and the impact his presidency could have on international shipping is, as he [...]

As of Monday, the OCEAN Alliance has been cleared for business–at least as far as the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) is concerned. However, the vessel sharing agreement between CMA CGM, [...]

Drip, drip, drip… You can just hear the sounds of liquidation. It’s still possible that Hanjin could survive as a small carrier in South Korea, but it’s looking more and more [...]

Well, this might be a little bit early–notices are reported to start going up tomorrow at the earliest–but Hanjin Shipping’s Asia-U.S. operations are going up for sale.  The [...]

Will we see more major carriers, like Hanjin, go bankrupt soon? According to the work of a major research company in the international shipping industry, it looks not only possible but likely. [...]

With all the bad news for international shipping that came with the collapse of Hanjin Shipping, how about a little good news for the industry? U.S. agricultural exports look to get a huge bump [...]

It’s a new twist on an old strategy. Usually with divide and conquer, it is the enemies or subjects intended for rule that an entity divides in order to overtake or rule. Maersk, the [...]