'Tariff today, gone tomorrow' taking transpac box trade to the brink
Is Trump taking us back to tramp shipping?
A new contract arrangement for carriers and shippers to arrange ocean freight bookings has been launched.
It would, it is claimed, dramatically limit no-shows by shippers and rollovers by carriers, and could eliminate some of the $23bn extra costs incurred annually by the industry.
The New York Shipping Exchange (NYSHEX) ...
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