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Getting a good freight rate quote or freight rate pricing is an important step in the international shipping process. You have importing or exporting to do and need to find out what it will cost [...]

U.S. sanctions on Iran are about to get tougher than they already are making international shipping even harder for the country. On July 1st, new U.S. sanctions on Iran will be implemented that [...]

U.S. relations with Burma, also known as Myanmar, are changing and drastically affecting U.S. import practices from the country. Burmese President Thein Sein just ended a historic visit to the [...]

By Grace Bailey International shipping is not a cheap task, that’s why it’s best to use the services of one international shipping company and ideally to build a long-lasting relationship with [...]

An exterior staircase stands mangled and tilted, all that’s left of the control tower of the Genoa Port in Italy. A cargo ship crashed into the dock last week and toppled the control tower, [...]

By Grace Bailey Professional cargo moving offered by international shipping companies offers great opportunities to move pretty much anything. From vehicles to entire households, containers can [...]

The 40 day strike by the dockworkers slowing international shipping at the Kwai Chung cargo terminals in Hong Kong has come to an end. In the last blog I wrote about the strike drawing near [...]

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 [...]

by Jared Vineyard He’s ba-aaaack. Back in November of 2011, I posted a blog on Tony Munoz, editor-in-chief of The Maritime Executive Magazine and MarEx e-Newsletter, calling President Obama out [...]