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It’s hard to believe we are only hours away from 2016. 2015 seems to have come to an end incredibly quickly, but a lot happened in the international shipping industry this year. So much has [...]

If you regularly read this blog, you probably already know international shipping is vital to the U.S. economy, job creation, and U.S. competitiveness abroad. However, if you regularly read the [...]

Since tomorrow is Christmas Eve, here is a special, early blog. Universal Cargo wishes you all a merry Christmas with “A Logistics Christmas Poem” below and happy holidays with this [...]

East Coast ports have been eagerly anticipating the expansion of the Panama Canal to allow megaships (of course, not the most mega of megaships, but 1.5 times larger than the previous [...]

Residents feel betrayed. Green groups are enraged. Politicians call for change. What happened? In 2003, an anti-pollution agreement was made–well, a settlement, really–in which the [...]

Almost two years ago, I posted Hunger Games of the Sea, a blog about all the carrier alliances that were forming as international shipping companies struggled for dominance and just to stay [...]

As delegates from almost 200 countries, 195 to be exact, try to work together in Paris to negotiate a global climate agreement, the big news surrounding the latest draft of their global climate [...]

We live in the future. In Back to the Future, when Marty McFly and Doc Brown time travel to the future, they go to the year 2015. “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need [...]

“Congestion, congestion, congestion!” I can hear port owners whining about congestion getting all the attention like Jan lementing all the attention Marcia gets in the Brady Bunch. Of [...]

Remember when the Yuan suffered sudden devaluation against the dollar and then the Chinese stock market crashed back in August? Shock waves went through the global economy, leaving many asking [...]