News / Western exporters' complaints ignored as backhaul shipping service levels sink

14/04/2014

Ocean carrier schedule reliability on the headhaul Asia-north Europe and Asia-US west coast tradelanes is worsening every month, according to analysts.

This is causing concern among importers and retailers that stock levels have insufficient buffers to cope with what they view as the flagrant disregard of ...

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