Shipping News Alert: Delays at Port of Oakland
For the last 3 months, the Port of Oakland has been experiencing delays and backlog at SSA terminals. Waiting time at the port is causing a blockade from truckers. Shippers should try to avoid [...]
For the last 3 months, the Port of Oakland has been experiencing delays and backlog at SSA terminals. Waiting time at the port is causing a blockade from truckers. Shippers should try to avoid [...]
Now could be the perfect time to be a U.S. manufacturer or exporter. According to the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), “Export manufacturing has recently become the unsung hero of the U.S. [...]
“It was a nightmare. It was a horror show.” The above words are from Jeff Bader, president of the Association of Bi-State Motor Carriers trade group as quoted by Bloomberg News on [...]
Iron Man 3 just came out and perhaps you’re wondering why that’s the opening of a blog on a freight forwarder’s site. What caught our attention is the movie spent some weeks [...]
Is there a danger to the Southern California ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles? Some are speculating there is a danger in the form of the Panama Canal Expansion that is currently underway. We [...]
We are 11 days away from another possible blow to the U.S. economy. The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) have reached the end of their contract with the United States Maritime [...]
All terminals of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are open as of 7am Wednesday morning. The OCU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 63 Office Clerical Unit) strike that [...]
Here’s the situation. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 63 Office Clerical Unit (OCU) are on strike. The strike is having a severe impact on the flow of cargo being imported [...]
Carriers have been ordering a new breed of cargo container ships that are finally beingintroduced to the world. At the risk of sounding like a B-horror flick like Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus, [...]
With the end of 2011 came the end of the Clean Truck Fee for shippers importing and exporting through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Or did it? A previous Universal Cargo Management [...]
Occupy Strikes Back: 12.12.11—It reads like a movie poster. The people who wrote the slogan, probably going for an epic sound with the Star Wars title reference, probably wouldn’t compare the [...]
Universal Cargo Management’s last blog looked at how the next phase of the Clean Truck Plan at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach could cause shippers to see an increase in trucking [...]
If you do international business and have used the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach for your importing and exporting, the title of a recent post from Pier Pass may sound exciting to you. [...]
China has long been the worst example of going green, as they are now a much larger pollutant to the environment than the U.S. as they plunge headlong into the future with the aggressive goal of [...]
Travel back to 2007. Payton Manning led the Indianapolis Colts to the Super Bowl XLI win over the Chicago Bears. Spider-Man 3 broke box office records with its theatrical release. And carriers [...]
When it comes to freight rates, the international shipping industry has always been a volatile ride. Imagine going up and down the waves of choppy waters in a small boat. Freight rates tend to [...]
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 [...]
Earlier this week, on the 26th of February, the Federal Maritime Commission issued its final rules for demurrage and detention billing as set up for it to create by the Ocean Shipping Reform Act [...]
Sometimes bad news isn't as bad as it appears. This isn't one of those times. Last week, I wrote about the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) using the word shippers most fear [...]
If there's one word shippers hate to hear in relation to the dockworkers and their unions that control the jobs up and down the U.S. coasts, it's strike. We're a little under a year away from the [...]