As the expiration of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) quickly approaches, shippers are getting more and more anxious about the ...

Strike, strike, strike! The U.S. supply chain is in a triple strike threat from truckers, dockworkers, and rail workers. Normally, it’s three strikes and ...

Afer two years of port congestion and supply chain disruption and with new powers from the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (“OSRA 2022”), the Federal ...

Imports for the end of the year were already expected to decline, but at the end of last week the expected decline for October basically doubled. ...

Imports from Southeast Asia to the U.S. totaled over $231 billion in 2020 alone, and the value of imports from countries like Thailand, Malaysia and ...

Importers, and shippers in general, had a rough couple of years when it came to international shipping after the pandemic hit. But the landscape, or ...

2022 is just days away from being over, so it’s time to look forward to 2023. We’ll probably have a few posts focused on what the year will have in store ...

It’s become something of a habit when talking about the sister ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to mention they’re the busiest port complex in the ...

Ocean freight rates have fallen, for which U.S. importers can rejoice. Readers of Universal Cargo’s blog certainly don’t need a recap of how freight ...

After a couple years of out of control, skyrocketing freight rates, ocean freight pricing finally came tumbling down. Freight rates have gone from peaks, ...

The Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) released an images to the media of trucks backed up on Friday from a terminal at the Port of Los Angeles. Labor ...

A group of 238 state, local, and federal trade associations sent a letter to President Biden, imploring him and his administration to mediate the ...