A story about Hamburg Sud and Maersk having ceased to provide services to certain freight forwarders through named account contracts since January 1, was the best-read post on Freight News last week.
The report in question, “Forwarders get the push as carriers go direct” (read it here: https://tinyurl.com/csnnpcn8), reflects ongoing concerns in the forwarding fraternity about burgeoning monopoly behaviour by lines.
In case you missed them, several other topics also dominated headlines.
These are:
- Demurrage charge for carriers under consideration: (https://tinyurl.com/49btvhjk)
- ‘Hello congestion my old friend’ – TPT: (https://tinyurl.com/yacmsam5)
- Shipping lines again under fire: (https://tinyurl.com/2p9hf688)
