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Articles on the shipping industry behind your move.

Reference and explanation about the carriers, alliances and schedules an international household shipment moves through. For step-by-step help with your own move, see the moving guides.

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  • The risks in an international move, and who sends the invoice

    Demurrage, detention, rolled sailings, container availability, customs examinations, cartage, store handling and storage in transit — what each one is, which party invoices you, and what the US billing rules give the party who pays.

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  • The ten largest shipping companies in the world (2026)

    The carriers ranked by operated capacity, the schedule-reliability figures the rankings leave out, and why the line that sold the slot is often not the line whose ship carries the box.

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