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Congestion at the Port of Singapore hit critical levels over these last couple weeks. Container ships are having to anchor and wait to dock, with wait-time estimates of up to seven days. This is [...]

It's not unprecedented, but we're looking at an early peak season for international shipping this year. Analyzing wide industry reporting, the demand side of ocean freight has picked up in April [...]

This is a guest post by Ellie Gabel. The Baltimore bridge collapse and the Taiwan earthquake are among the latest disruptions forcing businesses to adjust their management and tracking [...]

The Biden Administration took a page out of the Trump Administration handbook this week as it announced big tariff hikes on imports from China. Regular readers of Universal Cargo's blog won't be [...]

Yesterday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Baltimore used explosives on the part of the collapsed Francis Key Bridge that's been holding the giant container ship Dali trapped for over a [...]

If you're importing from Asia right now, there's a high chance you're experiencing or about to experience delays in getting your cargo. It's likely an increase in shipping costs is hitting this [...]

A couple weeks ago, I posted an article about what AI "thinks" about international shipping. It contained a "conversation" I had with AI, where I asked it questions about international shipping. [...]

The last post was about how nobody knows anything about what will happen with the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) contract negotiations, with its potential to highly disrupt [...]