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Regulators in the US are slowly tightening their grip on the ocean shipping and inland supply chain market as the rule regarding detention and demurrage (D&D) fees begins to bite.

The new information demands by the Federal Maritime Commission’s (FMC) Bureau of Trade Analysis (BTA) will ...

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  • Jon Smith

    May 09, 2022 at 7:47 pm

    We should have more truckers and forwarders holding these lines accountable.
    About time the FMC woke up