Shipping a container in November last year cost $1,300-1,500. This November, it cost between $6,000-8,000.
The firm puts this increase down to a “perfect storm” of Covid, the build-up to Brexit and congestion within UK ports. It s time critical, because this is starting to hurt. Action is needed and it is needed at the highest levels, said Mr Crosby.
Andy Walker, head of policy and research at Suffolk Chamber of Commerce, said it had met with Suffolk Coastal MP Dr Therese Coffey to raise issues with her and articulate the views of freight forwarders .
Andy Walker of Suffolk Chamber of Commerce
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Freight Forwarders Angry With Latest Shipping Line Surcharge
The British International Freight Association (BIFA), the trade association for UK freight forwarding and logistics companies, says its members are exasperated by the news that one of the world’s leading container shipping companies will be levying an ‘Emergency Space Surcharge’ from South East India ports to the North Continent, the Mediterranean, North Africa, Red Sea & Latin America.
“Forwarders do not like shipping line surcharges of whatever nature and, along with other groups, we have been challenging their legitimacy on behalf of our members – and their customers – for many years,” says Robert Keen, BIFA Director General.
Freight Forwarders Fed Up with Excess Costs Passed on by Container Shipping Lines
Objections to What are Seen as Unjustified Surcharges
UK – INDIA – WORLDWIDE – The news that a leading container shipping line is introducing an Emergency Space Surcharge (ESS) on services from South East India ports to the North Continent, the Mediterranean, North Africa, Red Sea and Latin America, has shippers and freight forwarders incandescent with rage.
French box line CMA CGM announced details of the surcharge, to be levied from today ‘in a continued effort to provide customers with reliable and efficient service’, not at all however how the cargo community sees it.
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