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News / Container shipping pricing set for major change, consigning the suspect GRI to a watery grave

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RIP the GRI.

For at least three years, the major shipping lines may no longer attempt to boost loss-making routes with opaque, optimistically priced and often unsustainable general rate increases.

The European Commission yesterday gave interested parties a month to comment on the new container shipping rate commitments the ...

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  • John Roberts

    February 18, 2016 at 4:56 pm

    Good.
    GRI’s were silly and didn’t work.

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