Removing de minimis no 'silver bullet' as ecommerce traffic floods into EU
As the EC mulls custom reform, European stakeholders suggest abolishing the de minimis limit for ...
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Ten shipper and forwarder organisations have urged the EC to bring forward the review of the Consortia Block Exemption Regulation (CBER).
In a letter to EC executive VP Margrethe Vestager, shippers take issue with the commission’s view that competition in the market is strong and working within the CBER guidelines.
Last year, letters on 13 April and 14 September did not appear to shift the European competition regulator’s stance, the EC maintaining it was keeping a close eye on the market mechanics ...
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gunther ginckels
July 25, 2022 at 2:19 pmAgree with the Forwarders & Shippers – re-install conferences allowing capacity and rate sharing. Be careful not to throw the baby out with the dirty bath water. Strange – no complaints from forwarders & shippers when during the period 2013-2018 the EBIT of the top-carriers was almost permanently negative. One can ask whether the position of container carriers is action or reaction? And who will pull money out of the draws when carriers will have to invest in environmental technology? Fingerpointing will not solve anything while mainly shippers and forwarders continue to refuse data sharing allowing economic synchromodal logistics and they remain on the burning platform.