News / Shippers could avoid costly D&D fees and shortages by using their own boxes

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Shippers could ease their supply chain logjams, overcome box shortages and insulate themselves from huge demurrage and detention charges by using their own containers or leasing them, according to a report compiled by Container xChange.

“Greater use of shipper-owned containers (SOCs) can empower forwarders and NVOCCs, and reduce container shortages, shipping costs and risks,” said the lead contributor to the report, logistics consultant Wolfgang Lehmacher.

The online container platform for buying, selling and leasing containers carried out an undercover survey of the ...