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3PLs avoid TP rate lockdown

Monday, February 20, 2012

By Eric Johnson In late January, American Shipper surveyed shippers on the transpacific eastbound trade and the results were, as expected, quite enlightening. But perhaps the most intriguing number to emerge from the latest Transpacific Pulse survey was this: shippers who don’t lock in their rates on the trade for the year were five times more likely to have their cargo rolled in Asia than those that did. For all the talk about shippers and carriers and tr...

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