There is still no end in sight to the horrific Shanghai lockdown, where the Chinese government has actually barricaded people inside their homes, worsening the struggle for citizens to get food [...]
On Friday, the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) served its initial decision, fining Hapag-Lloyd over $800,000 for violating the Shipping Act by assessing unfair detention fees against a drayage [...]
China’s atrociously insane “Covid Zero” policies have Shanghai, a central hub for international shipping and the third most populous city in the world, in an indefinite [...]
Here we go again. Two weeks ago we were talking about China putting a whole province, millions and millions of people, on lockdown. This week, China put Shanghai on lockdown. Keith Wallis [...]
We may have seen a full shift in U.S. import patterns for 2022, particularly with an increase in cargo volumes through East Coast ports. Bill Mongelluzzo reports in the Journal of [...]
You know all that bragging the Biden Administration has done over the last four months about getting the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to go 24/7 to fight congestion? Yeah, the ports are [...]
This is a guest post by Matthew Rayden. The pandemic has played havoc on anyone looking to make a living by importing and exporting goods. The question we are left with is just how bad the [...]
Air cargo delays, ocean shipping delays, and bad COVID policies. What's new? Beijing Olympics! Wait, didn't Beijing host the Olympics just a couple cycles ago? Well, not in combination with Covid [...]
This will be the last blog I post in 2021, so I can spend the holidays with family. What better time to do a look back at the year's top international shipping news stories? This year, stories [...]
It's said that the United States Congress can't work together. It's said that Democrats and Republicans can't agree on anything – that all they do is fight with each other. If that's the rule, [...]
In July, I went out on a limb as seemingly the only one in the shipping industry to predict ocean freight rates could fall by the end of the year. I turned out to be right. YAY! Headlines like [...]
It appears the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and their partners think they can climb out of congestion by charging hefty fines on cargo containers stuck on the docks. Big surcharges, [...]
When will it end? There are plenty of things people could be saying that about nowadays, but for U.S. shippers, unbelievably high freight rates; terribly congested ports; and disrupted, [...]
Their supply chains shaking and rattling, shippers wake up in cold sweats. If not dark, the horizon is hazy, impossible to see what lies ahead. But shippers know there's a contract expiration out [...]
High freight rates have become a motif in Universal Cargo's blog over the last year. That's not surprising as freight rates have climbed and climbed, breaking record after record, much to the [...]
Our last post was an excellent guest article by Jake Rheude about being ready for the next Suez-Canal-level-disruption to the global supply chain, and your business's supply chain in particular. [...]
An intriguing story broke in the international shipping industry at the start of this week. A shipper made a move that has the potential to be disruptive to ocean carriers, who run the world's [...]
This is staggering. Over 3,000 shipping containers fell into the Pacific Ocean last winter, Tim Lydon reports in the Revelator. We're not talking about all shipping containers lost throughout the [...]
I made a prediction in Tuesday's blog post about this year's peak season. That post wasn't actually about predicting what will happen with international shipping in the upcoming months, so the [...]
There are three international shipping news stories making headlines this week that shippers should know about. These are the kind of stories that affect U.S. importers and exporters' bottom [...]