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CORRECTION: 30.11.23 We initially wrote $297 per teu: but it is per container.
MSC has slapped a bumper $297 per container surcharge on shipments transiting the Panama Canal in response to the increasing capacity reductions.
It followed the announcement on Tuesday by CMA CGM of a $150 per teu ’Panama Adjustment Factor’, valid from 1 January. MSC’s surcharge will begin two weeks earlier, on 15 December.
MSC told customers: “During Q2 23, the Panama Canal Authority decided to reduce draught from 14.94 metres ...
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