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News / Indian forwarders brace for major peak season rate hike and PSS surge

Nhava Sheva Mumbai
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Indian exporters and freight brokers, now savouring a temporary slide in sky-high rate levels, are bracing for a peak season surcharge (PSS) shock.

Carriers are planning to quadruple the charges.

MSC has pumped up its PSS for shipments from India to the US and San Juan (Puerto Rico), after already hitting this tradelane with a $1,500 per box GRI on 4 July and raised a $500 per container PSS, also scheduled for 4 July, to $1,000 from 15 July.

And it will follow ...

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