News / Giti takes $12m Flexport legal battle to FMC

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Relations between Flexport and customer Giti Tires have reached an all-time low.

Earlier this month Flexport filed a $12.3m lawsuit against the shipper, claiming it refused to pay detention and demurrage charges between 2021 and 2023. Now Giti has fought back, claiming to the FMC that Flexport “wrongfully and unreasonably required Giti to pay millions of dollars in unreasonable demurrage and detention charges, as well as millions of dollars of other accessorial charges at unreasonable rates”.

The complaints, mostly concerning shipments to ...