News / FedEx price hikes: shippers, read small print or face an even bigger final bill

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Shippers are painfully aware that prices keep going up, but they often do not fathom the full extent of the hit some changes can make to their final bill.

Citing capacity constraints resulting in higher incremental costs, FedEx hiked the price of all international parcel and freight shipments on 6 April, and according to Echo Global Logistics, there is also a “dramatic change” for outsize freight shipments in its ground network.

Based on a review of its pallet limits on its LTL ...