You may be lucky to ever get space on Maersk, you may even be more lucky and be shipped and not rolled forward... Now these lucky guys will have to pay PSS on top! Quote North Europe to United States Peak Season Surcharge Dear Valued Client, Maersk Line will be implementing [...]
Quote Dear Valued Customer, We regret to announce that, MOL will suspend cargo acceptance on the PA1 service which currently connects Europe and USA East Coast. The last sailings of the PA1 service will be as follows: Eastbound: Seoul Express 010ET ETA Halifax March 3rd Westbound: Seoul Express 011WT ETA Southampton [...]
Another one... Quote Asia–Europe Structural Rate Recovery (Westbound) Notification of Increase in Asia – Europe rates as part of NYK Structural Revenue Recovery (SRR) Plan 12th February 2015 Dear Valued Customer, Please be advised that NYK will implement 2015 Structural Revenue Recovery (SRR) program for Westbound with effect from 15th [...]
PMA to halt ship work on four of next five days The Pacific Maritime Association said its members will suspend U.S. West Coast vessel operations on four of the next five days rather than provide longshoremen with holiday or weekend pay for “severely diminished productivity.”
As already mentioned in our previous post, MSC anounces another GRI for April 1st. Here the details: Quote For and on behalf of our principal MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A., Geneva, we like to inform you about the implementation of a Rate Restoration in the trade from North Europe to all USA [...]
Hanjin has enough of the problems in Portland: Quote Hanjin confirms it will leave Portland following two years of labor conflict Hanjin Shipping Co. said Wednesday in Asia that it was withdrawing direct service to the Port of Portland, Oregon, after a 2 1/2-year-old dispute with longshoremen that severely undermined [...]
Calling USA West Coast ports at this time is far away from being easy. There are lots of problems, waiting times and costs all over the place, MSC is reacting with the GRI specified below and the next GRI is also in the making already, meaning that as of April 1st, they will raise [...]
In theory shipping is easy: Move the cargo from A to B and have B clear with authorities. Instead, the carrier gets drawn into all sorts of stuff, which really is none of his business as a carrier. Here now the latest news on GHANA ASHI: Quote Dear all, please be [...]
All these lines keep on raising the rates while they continue to constantly reduce them after the GRI. The sense of that seems to be limited. Quote Customer Advisory #11 - 2015 Rate Restoration Initiative (RRI-07) – Asia to USA Effective March 09, 2015 Dear Valued Customer, Effective March 09, 2015, unless [...]
Please read here below: Quote West Coast ports shut down for weekend amid continuing labor conflict • 8:27 PM Jason Aycock, SA News Editor U.S. West Coast ports will close this weekend -- 29 of them -- as a nine-month labor slowdown drags on. Loading and unloading is suspended, though the Pacific Maritime [...]
