Comments on: CMA CGM Announces Possibly Trend-Setting Fee & New Service https://www.universalcargo.com/cma-cgm-announces-possibly-trend-setting-fee-new-service/ Freight Forwarding Company Wed, 07 Jun 2017 17:46:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.9 By: Jared Vineyard https://www.universalcargo.com/cma-cgm-announces-possibly-trend-setting-fee-new-service/#comment-130087 Wed, 07 Jun 2017 17:46:41 +0000 https://www.universalcargo.com/?p=8132#comment-130087 In reply to Gary Ferrulli.

Completely agree, Gary. I’ll likely quote you in an article I’m putting together now on Hapag-Lloyd issuing this fee again.

]]> By: Gary Ferrulli https://www.universalcargo.com/cma-cgm-announces-possibly-trend-setting-fee-new-service/#comment-123016 Wed, 24 May 2017 15:39:33 +0000 https://www.universalcargo.com/?p=8132#comment-123016 It’s been tried before by Hapag and Maersk and because the market wouldn’t follow,
failed. Will it work now? My personal feeling is no, because the exceptions would become
the rule and —– . Carrier’s just can’t seem to tolerate having shippers upset, the ones who
try are told “we’ll pull the plug, no one else will do it” and so it goes.
It would actually do much good as it would stop or curtail the multiple bookings done to
“make sure we are covered”, and in a tight market that has cargo being booked three or four weeks
out that could move in a week but doesn’t because the ships are overbooked with ghost cargo
by big shippers/nvo’s. But with no consequence, why would they care?

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