Backhaul blues and a gradual decline in liner schedule reliability
Liner schedule reliability data continues to show the Gemini Cooperation achieving the highest on-time vessel ...
US judge Erin Wirth has imposed “a default decision” on MSC, following the carrier’s failure to present documents in the discovery phase of the case brought to the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) in July 2021 by MCS Industries.
She has ordered the carrier to pay reparations of $944,655, plus interest, to MCS.
In her initial ruling last week, Judge Wirth said MSC had failed to disclose documents first requested as long ago as 8 December 2021.
And the judge made it clear that the ...
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