CMA Suspension of Port Congestion Surcharge USWC

    Very surprising, but CMA is suspending their Port Congestion Surcharge for the US West Coast. We already asked ourselves, what the legal base was to charge customers now. Weeks ago customers shipped their cargo, were they warned at that stage that a possible congestion surcharge would be levied? Were customers aware of that [...]

By |2014-11-19T14:11:24+01:00November 19th, 2014|News|0 Comments

OOCL Update North America situation

  We are always happy to present to you information about the situation in North America. OOCL is of great help:   Quote     Dear valued OOCL Customer, Rail Network   A significant winter storm (first of the season) will be impacting Montana and the Northern Plains with very cold temperatures and snow. With [...]

By |2014-11-19T13:49:27+01:00November 19th, 2014|News|0 Comments

Hyundai USA West Coast Update

    We really appreciate any news that we get on the situation at the West Coast of the USA:     Quote   Further to our last update, and as has been widely reported, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union(ILWU) and Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) continue to negotiate a new contract for coverage of United States [...]

By |2014-11-19T11:44:33+01:00November 19th, 2014|News|0 Comments

NYK Strike Announcement Antwerp

  We published it already a few days ago as our own news, here now the NYK circular:   Quote   Announced Strike Actions in the Port of Antwerp 18th November 2014 Dear Valued Customer, NYK would like to inform you that in response to the latest coalition agreement as released by the Belgian Federal [...]

By |2014-11-19T09:33:08+01:00November 19th, 2014|News|0 Comments

OOCL Transpacific Port Congestion Surcharge

    We had it already in our news, however, these seem to be the Transpac surcharges:     Quote   Transpacific Trade - Port Congestion Surcharge (PCS) Dear Valued Customer, Please be advised that after our review of the various factors contributing to the ongoing port congestion situation along the US West Coast, such [...]

By |2014-11-18T16:18:16+01:00November 18th, 2014|News|0 Comments

NYK Euro – Asia GRI

    Another attempt to get the rates up, this time from Europe to Asiao     Quote   Dear Valued Customer, Please be advised that NYK will implement 2014 Structural Revenue Recovery (SRR) program for Eastbound with effect from 1st December 2014(This SRR was originally intended to be effective from 6th November 2014 but differed to [...]

By |2014-11-18T15:41:37+01:00November 18th, 2014|News|0 Comments

MOL TAS Service Change

  Here the MOL update on their service change together with transit time overview:     Quote   We would like to inform you that we have concluded the upgrading of current AX1 Service within the G6 alliance. A 5th ship will be phased into the service to increase the schedule reliability. Additionally, weekly call at [...]

By |2014-11-18T14:20:59+01:00November 18th, 2014|News|0 Comments

MOL suspension of Kiel Canal surcharge

    Here the latest news from MOL on the Canal surcharge:   Quote   RE: Suspension Kiel Canal Surcharge   Dear Valued Customer, We would like to inform you that MOL has decided to suspend the Kiel Canal Surcharge which currently applies for all shipments to/from ports in Scandinavia and the Baltic with the exception [...]

By |2014-11-18T13:32:38+01:00November 18th, 2014|News|0 Comments

MOL Labor Negotiation Surcharge USA

    The problems are not solved, carrier by carrier comes up with a surcharge for the problems at the USA West Coast. See here the MOL version:     Quote     Dear MOL Customer: Please be advised that the labor negotiations surcharge communicated by MOL on May 23, 2014 will take effect and [...]

By |2014-11-18T13:09:05+01:00November 18th, 2014|News|0 Comments

Hyundai Low Sulphur Surcharge

  One by one the carriers come on the screen with their low sulphur surcharges, this is Hyundai :     Quote   HMM Notice: Low Sulphur Surcharge (LSF) introduction   We'd like to advise that HMM will implement a Low Sulphur Surcharge for all shipments from/to Europe SECA (Sulphur Emission Control Area : North Sea [...]

By |2014-11-18T11:29:36+01:00November 18th, 2014|News|0 Comments
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