Carriers need to cut more capacity for March GRIs to hold
Container freight spot rates on the major trades continued to slide this week, forcing carriers ...
Hapag-Lloyd has adopted National Cargo Bureau’s Hazcheck Detect cargo screening tool, becoming the third top-ten carrier, after Maersk and ONE, to do so.
Like other systems of its type, Hazcheck scans bookings for suspicious key words – consignees misdeclaring hazardous cargo to secure cheaper rates are implicated in a number of major ship casualties and the loss of several lives.
“For example, some use ‘plant growth regulator’ when they wish to circumnavigate using the words ‘ammonium nitrate’,” Ken Rohlmann, senior director dangerous ...
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