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Don't know what Universal Cargo's Annual Turkey Day Blog is all about? It can probably best be summed up in a poem. Here's how that poem starts:

Every year about this [...]

It’s back! The blog I know we’re all most thankful for… Universal Cargo’s Thanksgiving Turkey Blog! Yes, it’s become a Universal Cargo tradition that every year when [...]

It’s finally here! Universal Cargo General Manager Raymond Rau’s favorite blog of the year: Universal Cargo’s Happy Thanksgiving Turkey Blog! You might call today Thanksgiving, [...]

Okay, I wasn’t going to do a Thanksgiving blog that brings together turkeys and international shipping this year because I was pretty sure the previous ones were the least read blogs [...]

Since Universal Cargo Management posts a blog every Tuesday and Thursday, I find myself writing an International Shipping Thanksgiving Day Blog every year. As you can imagine with such a perfect [...]

This is a guest post by Timothy Clark. When you think about a country's top export, what comes to your mind? It probably creates and connects mental images of Italy and pasta, Belgium and [...]

71 U.S. agricultural industry groups teamed up to write a letter to President Biden, informing him of the injury ocean freight carriers are doing to US agriculture, food, and forestry product [...]

We could probably all use a little good news right now. Shippers, specifically, who are seeing blank (cancelled) sailings from ocean carriers, operating hours cut at port terminals, and the risk [...]

This is a guest post by Boris Hodakel.

Entering the apparel market with a global manufacturing partner should be done carefully, as some countries get low ratings among worker rights [...]

This is a guest post by Keith Coppersmith.

Even though your brand and your supply chain seem like two completely unrelated aspects of your business, they are in fact two inextricable [...]

For those of you who don't know, Universal Cargo's CEO Devin Burke and President Shirley Burke have a son who is a pro golfer. Micah Burke, who put off joining the family shipping business to [...]

Guest post by Gemma Davies On Tuesday the 28th of March, 2017, British Prime Minister Theresa May signed article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, triggering the UK’s formal exit from the European Union [...]

Who says international shipping has to be boring? For many, international shipping is a fascinating subject; however, for many, many, many more, it is not. Yet, over the last several years, [...]

2.5 billion dollars a day. That huge dollar amount is what long-term work stoppages at the ports cost the U.S. economy according to a study commissioned by the National Association of [...]

It’s a popular legend. An Ethiopian shepherd boy notices the antics of his sheep after they graze among the fruit of the plant coffea arabica. But there’s more to the story. My wife, [...]