News / ECA surcharge confusion: tighter rules loom, but industry is gripped by inertia

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Ocean carriers have been very slow to clarify the bunker surcharge they will bill customers to compensate for higher fuel costs associated to the stricter IMO emission control regulations coming into force in January in the ECA regions of the US, North Sea and Baltic.

Speaking on the second day of the TOC Container Supply Chain event in London yesterday, Helge Neumann-Lezius, Kuehne + Nagel’s trade manager for intra-Europe, said that his company, the largest ocean freight forwarder globally, had been ...