News / No free pass for shippers as box lines forced to implement new bunker surcharges

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Shipper hopes that carriers will not impose fuel surcharges have been shot down as Maersk and CMA CGM became the latest to implement a bunker surcharge.

Drewry’s Simon Heaney, senior manager supply chain research, told The Loadstar the emergency fuel surcharge announced by MSC earlier this week would be just the first of many, rather than an outlier.

“This is no isolated event; other carriers will have to follow this, with bunker costs spiralling and rates dropping, you have the ingredients for ...