It looks like the practices of ocean carriers during the pandemic and the resulting record-high freight rates have caught the attention of American and ...

Transpacific shipping is strong right now. Despite predictions by experts earlier in the year that 2020 would see no international shipping peak season, ...

The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) is increasing how often ocean freight carriers from the three major alliances that dominate global shipping must ...

Transpacific freight rates, and freight rates in general, were astronomical in 2020, rising and rising until, at last, they reached a plateau around the ...

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 ...

It’s early to talk about the 2021 peak season for the international shipping industry; however, with severe congestion at U.S. ports expected to last at ...

Over the last year, Universal Cargo has posted so many blogs about the astronomical freight rates the international shipping industry has been ...

Maritime research firm Drewry is predicting the same thing we’ve been saying here in Universal Cargo’s blog for a while: high freight rates aren’t going ...

A couple months ago, we blogged about carriers making billions with these high freight rates shippers are being forced to choke down. Well, that was ...

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, ...

A couple blogs ago, I wrote about three ways ocean freight rates could see a significant drop. One of those ways was if regulators break up the carrier ...

Today, we continue our look at governmental pressure on the international shipping industry. Having watched carrier competition shrink over the last ...