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News / Box lines force D&D charges on near-bankrupt Afghan shippers caught in crossfire

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Cross-border trading between Afghanistan and Pakistan, via the southwestern port of Karachi in Pakistan, has been brought to a virtual standstill as both the Taliban and Pakistani authorities delay traffic.

As if conflict, border controls and burgeoning freight rates were not enough to drive Afghan forwarders ...

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  • Frank Findlow

    September 23, 2021 at 6:47 am

    Unfortunately it looks like the shipping lines have no Humanitarian spirit, its all about making money, but how stupid or greedy or both are they?
    Freight forwarders the world over are doing it tough, whilst shipper [lines] the world over are raking in the money.
    Short sighted Greed is all it is, very frustrating.

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