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 [...]
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 [...]
"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 [...]
For today's blog, I thought we'd do something a little bit different. The artificial intelligence (AI) craze has hit. Despite all those warnings we got from movies in the 80's and 90's, everyone [...]
In a speech, yesterday, to union workers in Pennsylvania, President Biden called for U.S. trade representative Katherine Tai to consider tripling tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum if her [...]
Anti-Israel protests essentially shut down the Port of Oakland yesterday, and that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Such protests have taken aim at ports around the world, to varying degrees [...]
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 [...]
While we've made mention of its status in some articles, we haven't done a full update on the Panama Canal situation since a February post. That post was a much needed moment of good news for [...]
What's been happening with shipping on the East Coast since the tragic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge? I'm glad you asked. Let's get into the updates... There were close to 100 ships [...]
Today (Tuesday, April 2nd), the Biden Administration announced a new rule that increases the minimum crew size to two on every train for all large freight railroads. That doesn't mean every train [...]
There’s a lot happening in international shipping right now. Rather than make shippers scramble from news site to news site to see what all is going on, we’ve rounded up the top [...]
Early this morning, a container ship called the Dali left the Port of Baltimore for Sri Lanka, but things went horribly wrong. About a half hour later, the ship lost power and crashed into the [...]
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 [...]
A boy waits for his mother to pick him up. But she doesn't show. She doesn't call. No one can get a hold of her. The woman is reported missing, and the police investigate. Nothing. There's no [...]
The situation in the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea, forcing ocean freight carriers to route ships away from the Suez Canal, got worse yesterday (Wednesday, March 6th). Antisemitic, Iran-backed Houthi [...]
