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 goes up must come down. Despite many experts saying we would never see pre-pandemic-level freight rates again when the cost of ocean shipping ...

Democrat and Republican lawmakers seem to have found something they can agree on: the international shipping industry, and ocean freight sector in ...

As always, we here at Universal Cargo are keeping an eye on international shipping news, so you don’t have to. Two big items in shipping news right now ...

Feast and Famine It’s no secret that the international shipping industry, even for all the supply chain disruptions and bottlenecks, did very well ...

More Ships and Likely Lower Freight Rates If there was a war over freight rates, whoever ocean freight carriers’ version of Paul Revere is would be ...

Introduction We’re still only beginning to see how the changes to U.S. shipping law will affect businesses’ imports and exports as well as carriers’ ...

While we’ve made mention of its status in some articles, we haven’t done a full update on the Panama Canal situation since a February post. That post was ...

Controversy continues to swirl around the Federal Maritime Commission’s (FMC’s) proposed rules on “unreasonable refusal to deal or negotiate with respect ...

Introduction We’re still only beginning to see how the changes to U.S. shipping law will affect businesses’ imports and exports as well as carriers’ ...

Introduction We’re still only beginning to see how the recent and ongoing changes to U.S. shipping law will affect businesses’ imports and exports as ...

Importers can thank goodness that their freight rates and international shipping costs are generally on par with pre-COVID levels and behaviors. To say ...