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Shipper confidentiality raised over FMC index proposal

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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

The nation’s largest shipper group, the National Industrial Transportation League, says data from confidential shipping contracts should not be used by the Federal Maritime Commission to develop container freight rate indexes for agricultural exports. In its newsletter Notice , the NIT League said a survey of its members “exhibited a range of views” on how or whether the FMC should develop such an index but “were clear that data from confidential service contracts filed at the...

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