News / New call to end shipping surcharges: 'let's follow Sri Lanka's lead'

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The Global Sippers Forum has renewed its campaign to end the myriad shipping surcharges levied by shipping lines on customers.

Speaking to The Loadstar shortly after the conclusion of its annual Global Shippers Forum gathering in London last week, chairman Sean van Dort described shipping surcharges as “a cancer in our industry, for which there appears to be no medicine”.

He urged countries to look at legislation introduced in Sri Lanka in 2014, which specified that all quotes for shipping containerised cargo ...