Comment / 'Honour' and 'shipping' in the same breath? Or just swings and roundabouts?

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By Alessandro Pasetti

11/06/2024

“Why should carriers honour contractual commitments when rates go up?”

So asked shipping master Lars Jensen in a LinkedIn post (excerpt below) that, by his own admission in the comment section of his missive, got massive traction on a Sunday*.

(*”Don’t people take time off from work related stuff on Sundays in this industry? The post got past 10,000 views in less than an hour,” he noted ––> this anecdotally speaks volumes about how relevant that topic now is in the sea ...

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