High Point Party Was a Crazy Good Time & Smash Hit!
“People were saying it was the best High Point party they’ve ever been to,” Universal Cargo CEO Devin Burke said after Classy Art’s Secret Garden party. Burke should know; [...]
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Posted 3 Changes Coming to International Shipping in the Near Future
In light of digital technologies, big data, and the Internet of Things–yes, the 4th Industrial Revolution–the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company imagined what [...]
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Posted What’s Happening with Ocean Freight Rates?
What kind of freight rates are shippers getting right now on their ocean shipping? The last time we posted on freight rates was in August with a blog titled Freight Rate Wars: Carriers Strike [...]
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Posted Maersk Expects Carrier Competition to Shrink to 3 Global Companies
Maersk is the largest carrier by capacity in international shipping and clearly the leader of the industry. We’ve talked about this before in Universal Cargo’s blog: The moves Maersk [...]
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Posted Is International Shipping About to Be Disrupted by the 4th Industrial Revolution?
Big, bold letters reading, “Fourth Industrial Revolution will disrupt shipping” headline an article Wolfgang Lehmacher wrote for the Journal of Commerce (JOC). Is this just a [...]
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Posted Universal Bizargo: Shipping Changes the Weather
Is international shipping manipulating weather? Controlling the weather has often captured our imagination in popular fiction. Examples include the upcoming movie Geostorm about weather [...]
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Posted 5 Best Practices for Transporting Containers Safely By Sea
Guest Post by Kevin Hill Do you transport goods or commodities by sea? If yes, then you must be aware of the various challenges that come with transporting the containers safely. You can adopt [...]
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Posted Is THE Alliance in Trouble?
THE Alliance members are “falling further behind in the megamax vessel stakes,” Alphaliner was quoted as saying in an article by Mike Wackett in the Loadstar. The headlining point of [...]
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Posted Port of Oakland Investing $11 Million for Meat Exporting
China has beef with the U.S. again, and it’s worth billions of dollars. The Port of Oakland wants in on that money, and is spending $11 million to be a part of it. It was almost exactly a [...]