Small shippers need not apply

Monday, July 25, 2011

SeaIntel finds carriers, large NVOs mostly uninterested in rate quotes for small transpacific, Asia/Europe shippers. By Eric Johnson Shippers groups have long bemoaned the treatment that small shippers get from container lines. Now they have a little more ammo. A report in mid-June from Danish maritime analyst SeaIntel outlined the difficulties new, smaller shippers can face in getting carriers and large non-vessel-operating common carriers to respond to rate requests. ...

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