The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) is increasing how often ocean freight carriers from the three major alliances that dominate global shipping must ...
At the beginning of August, we shared a story in Universal Cargo’s blog about a U.S. shipper, MCS Industries, filing an official complaint with the ...
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), the world’s largest ocean freight carrier by capacity, has been making moves that could position itself to leave ...
On Thursday, Universal Cargo’s blog was about MSC and Maersk announcing they’re ending the 2M Alliance. The world’s top two shipping lines said they’re ...
Maersk doesn’t believe any of the ocean freight carriers outside of itself and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) have the ability to stand alone. For ...
Shippers, get ready for the freight rate war saga of the ocean carriers to continue. Perhaps the biggest reason for shippers to pay attention to what’s ...
What were Universal Cargo’s top blog posts of 2023? Every year, we like to count it down from 10 to 1, classic David Letterman style. Sometimes we do the ...
Big changes are happening in the international shipping landscape, or waterscape (?), as the 2M, Ocean, and THE carrier alliances are reshuffling. ...