News / No more cargo overcharging and Hanjin US exports must start to flow, rules court

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NVOCCs can no longer be overcharged for moving Hanjin cargo, and the carrier’s US export shipments could soon start to move after a US court agreed a request from a group of forwarders and NVOCCs.

Complaining that they were being overcharged for some services originally contracted by Hanjin; that Hanjin was refusing to take delivery of containers; and that there was no movement on exports, the group, which includes Kuehne + Nagel, MIQ and Apex Maritime, asked to be treated in the same way as shippers.

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