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Over the last year, Universal Cargo has posted so many blogs about the astronomical freight rates the international shipping industry has been seeing, shippers are probably tired of reading about [...]

Freight is an essential part of your business. You need to get your products to your customers, but you rely on various shipping methods to get the job done. That makes freight shipping rates a [...]

This is a guest post by Victor Harper. Logistics, as we know it today, is an essential part of every successful business. You can see its wide application in commercial, non-commercial, [...]

Freight rates from Asia to the U.S. are still very high. In fact, still historically so according to Greg Miller's American Shipper article published on Tuesday. However, they have come down a [...]

The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) made a regulation move concerning ocean freight carriers. It's actually a bit of deregulation when it comes to carriers filing service contracts. Maybe it [...]

As the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach hit record volumes of imports for March and freight rates reached a new peak, experts are telling us that the days of overcapacity, and the lower [...]

If you thought freight rates couldn't get any higher, carriers responded with, "Hold my beer." We often focus on transpacific freight rates, with the prevalence of importing from China, which [...]

This is a guest post by Nick Jones. It's a well-known fact that most supply chains can benefit from improving their processes. However, as a logistics manager, you need to be careful. Finding [...]

It was hoped the high freight rates we've been seeing for about a year now in the international shipping industry would finally start easing back down at this point; however, it appears reprieve [...]

This is a guest post by Brad Smith. In 2012, to better get the edge over the competition, Maersk teamed up with Ericsson, the Swedish telecommunications company, to create a remote container [...]