scrubber malfunction from @Sam_Eckett tweeted video Ocean carriers’ biggest answer to meeting the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) upcoming ...

ARCTIC OCEAN Ð The Canadian Coast Guard Ship Louis S. St-Laurent makes an approach to the Coast Guard Cutter Healy in the Arctic Ocean Sept. 5, 2009. The ...

Last month, we finally saw progress in trade negotiations between the U.S. and China. A change in negotiation strategy has the two sides working out ...

In March of 2015, I wrote a Universal Cargo blog post about how the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) should pay damages for what the ...

This year, freight rates in the traditionally peak season months have behaved untraditionally. Instead of seeing higher freight rates, this peak season ...

In case anyone actually needed more evidence for the volatility of freight rates, ocean shipping prices just swung in the opposite direction again. After ...

Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), the world’s second largest ocean freight carrier by capacity for the moment, put out a press release on Monday ...

Last week, one of our partners in Vietnam emailed Universal Cargo about the country’s customs significantly increasing inspection “ratio on all cargo ...

2020 is less than a month away, and it’s not an exaggeration to say it will be one of the most eventful new years the international shipping industry has ...

We’re less than a month away from New Year’s Day when some big rule changes are to be implemented on the international shipping industry: Incoterms 2020 ...

As 2019 draws to a close, a ton of things are happening in international shipping. You would think with the last three blogs getting into IMO 2020, ...

Before 2020 hits, let’s take a look back at 2019. What happened in international shipping this year didn’t happen in a bubble. Just like events of ...