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Guest Blog by Mitch from Kensington Van Rental  International ocean cargo shipping has its advantages and disadvantages, but when used wisely it can be your main and most useful method for [...]

Today’s blog is a little bit different. Rather than looking at a news story that affects international shipping or giving international shipping tips, I’m going to share a list of [...]

Our last blog provided an overview of what’s happening in the South China Sea. Tensions between China, Vietnam, and the Philippines give shippers reason for a bit of worry, but the violent [...]

What’s going on between Vietnam, the Philippines, and China? Are my imports from this region in danger? Shippers are asking these kinds of questions, and with good reason. It’s all centered on [...]

Anti-China protests have arisen in Vietnam and the Philippines as tensions have been rising in the region. This week, protests turned to riots in Vietnam when China deployed an oil rig in [...]

Guest Blog by Greg D. If you need to ship perishable food or anything else that won’t last a long time, then you will need to take extra care that it arrives in perfect shape. This will [...]

Here at Universal Cargo Management, we work hard to not only take care of your international shipping needs, but to regularly post international shipping content to inform, assist, and even [...]

Never let them tell you international shipping isn’t dangerous. The dangers of shipping cargo across the seas and oceans from port to port are ever present, even without terrorism or piracy. At [...]

*EDIT (June 18, 2014):  Congestion Surcharge, should it be applied by carriers, affects ALL shipments Inbound to USA regardless of Port of Entry.* Just what we all want to hear about. More [...]

Perhaps having a main character who is a New York hedge fund manager is what drew so many Wall Street investors to the book The Shipping Man. According to an article from Bloomberg: In recent [...]