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Rate adviser says when shippers should ditch their container line Price, risk management and loss of trust — these are the three main reasons shippers end agreements with container lines, according to online container freight rate management company Xeneta. In a survey of its database of contributors, the Oslo-based platform for containerized ocean freight found […]

NY-NJ terminals’ SOLAS container weight policies come into focus U.S. exporters moving goods out of the Port of New York and New Jersey are getting a better understanding of how terminals at the largest U.S. East Coast gateway will handle the new SOLAS rule, with one — Maher Terminals — saying it will… NY-NJ terminals’ […]

Another carrier to charge shippers for SOLAS non-compliance If a container is not loaded because of non-compliance with the new verified gross mass regulations to be imposed from July, United Arab Shipping Company will charge the shipper responsible for that box 75 percent of the freight rate, and the bunker and currency adjustment factors.Called the […]

Largest Seattle terminal will not generate VGM data for shippers SSA Marine will continue to weigh all export containers at its Seattle terminal for safety requirements, but the Northwest Seaport Alliance’s largest terminal operator won’t provide the weight readings it captures to meet existing federal rules to exporters so they can meet… Largest Seattle terminal […]

Industry hopeful SOLAS solutions can be found ANTWERP — The global transportation industry will muddle through a new SOLAS container weighing rule taking effect July 1, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be disruption in the process. That was the broad message from an International Cargo Handling and Co-ordination Association seminar in Antwerp last week […]

UK forwarders warned SOLAS ‘grace’ period doesn’t allow noncompliance LONDON – A U.K. freight forwarder group urged its members not to be complacent about a new regulation on container weighing after the International Maritime Organization called on signatory countries and their enforcement agencies to show leniency in the the first three months of the rule, […]

Too few Russian shippers prepared for SOLAS container weight rule Too few Russian exporters have applied to create a verified gross mass declaration by weighing the goods and packing and securing materials, and then adding the tare weight of the container, heightening concerns that shipments will be turned away when the SOLAS rule takes effect […]

FMC urged to decide if major SOLAS breakthrough gets a shot WASHINGTON — Pressure is building on U.S. maritime regulators to quickly decide whether ports and container lines can hash out details on a strategy that could dramatically simplify meeting the SOLAS container weight rule for exporters. Six East and Gulf Coast operating ports and 19 […]

Eastbound trans-Pacific spot rates strengthen Spot rates in the eastbound Pacific increased again this week from their low points last month, a sign that containerized imports from Asia are gradually increasing as the trade transitions to the summer-fall peak-shipping season. The spot rate for shipping a 40-foot-equivalent unit from Shanghai to the West Coast was […]

Trucking’s hiring pains are warehousing’s gains The U.S. employment numbers for May, released Friday, highlight a rift in transportation hiring: Warehousing is gaining jobs at a healthy rate, while trucking is losing them. Warehousing and storage businesses added 3,000 jobs from April to May, a 6.5 percent year-over-year increase and the 29th straight month of […]