New container shipping association established
A.P. Moller – Maersk, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, MSC and Ocean Network Express plan to establish a new container shipping association. The move is intended to ‘pave the way for digitalisation, standardisation and interoperability in the container shipping industry’. In addition, IT executives from A.P. Moller – Maersk, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, MSC and Ocean Network Express […]
BIFA reasserts call for an end to shipping line surcharges
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) is repeating the calls it has made previously for an end to surcharges imposed by shipping lines. The latest call follows recent announcements by the world’s leading container shipping companies almost in unison that they would be levying “emergency” bunker surcharges in response to rising fuel costs. Robert Keen, […]