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Every week, we post inquiries on Universal Cargo Management’s Facebook and Twitter pages asking what you want to read about in our international shipping blog. Yesterday–Monday, March [...]

The news of a tentative contract agreement being reached by the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) was music to shippers’ ears. [...]

“With three blasts from its horn, the freighter John G. Munson signaled the start of the Twin Ports shipping season on Monday,” reported Pioneer Press on TwinCities.com on Monday, [...]

For the first time ever, a container ship with a capacity larger than 10,000 TEUs (twenty-foot-equivalent units) called upon U.S. East Coast ports this week. Such megaships have called upon the [...]

A federal judge has ordered the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) to pay $60,000 to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for violating a court order to return operations [...]

Congestion at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is not new news. During the months of contract negotiations between the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and International Longshore & [...]

Remember the 2012/2013 ILA Strike Watch? Wouldn’t it be nice to never have one of those again? Wouldn’t it be nice not to be trying to recover from the port slowdowns and congestion [...]

The labor dispute coming to an end at the West Coast ports does not mean the ports have regained shippers’ confidence. It will take months to clear up the congestion that reached critical [...]