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Expectations that one of the world’s major container carriers will not offer services to some customers including some freight forwarders could be seen as an abuse of its dominant market position and a denial of service, says freight forwarder association Clecat.
Clecat director general Nicolette van der Jagt told The Loadstar shipping lines were already denying services to forwarders in some ways, which seemed a form of discrimination.
“The [ocean] alliances’ market share is very large; it is a concentrated market now [and] ...
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Ronny De Roeck
October 22, 2021 at 3:26 pmToday it is Maersk, after they’ve integrated their forwarding entity Damco, tomorrow it might (?) be CMA CGM with the integration of Ceva Logistics and of course it is an abuse of a dominant position in these cases.
Gert Janssens
October 22, 2021 at 3:27 pmFor short sea roro, between UK and the continent, I advice to use smaller carrier such as CLDN. There you are not treated as a number, but you get a much more personal service. They offer multimodal transport. You can use only their carrier services, or door2door.
Trevor Heaver
October 22, 2021 at 7:31 pmHow does the common carrier principle play out for liner shipping?
Rayomand Balsara
October 23, 2021 at 3:47 pmSo this move by Maersk is so typical of them. But would love to see howthey manage the show allby themselves a country like India where even the largest exporters expect freight funding and extraordinary services at a very negligible margin for the forwarder coupled with the risk of bad debts. I am waiting for them to make such a stupid move…
Gerardo Hernandez
October 28, 2021 at 2:44 amAn arrogant idea of Maersk and CMA….not a new thing that carriers want to go for the freight forwarder market, but a crucial big strategic mistake, Freight forwarder is not just a “middle man” to him away, they are offering real value added to his clients, then if we consider this as 2 different jobs and try to do all toghether you are not focusing in what you do best as a shipping line wich is operate! Good luck Maersk
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