Carriers box clever on capacity and have 'the upper hand' as contract talks loom

Recent experience and ongoing chaos in the Red Sea have led to carriers’ customers asking, on the eve of new negotiations: “Do contracts amount to anything any more?” NNR Global Logistics’ ...

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Carriers box clever on capacity and have 'the upper hand' as contract talks loom

Global Shippers Forum (GSF) Headlines

News / Carriers should 'share some of the risk', say shippers eyeing new contracts

News / To reshore or not to reshore the question for shippers as tariffs are 'bandied about'

News / Returning to Suez and rates: the shipping contract conundrum

News / Shippers brace for extra costs as carriers invoke force majeure

News / Shipping alliance shake-up will make waves during new contract season

COMPANY NOTICES

News / Shippers 'at a loss' as Red Sea ripples spread across container trades

News / FMC halts Gemini alliance and demands more info from Maersk and Hapag

News / EU ETS: 'the polluter pays', but the price 'must be more transparent'

Reports of mass global shift from China are being 'overplayed'

News / Buoyant North Africa – 'the new China' – bucks the air freight trend

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News / Maritime and rail carriers need to be more collaborative, say shippers

News / FMC sets up enforcement bureau 'with teeth' to police new shipping act

Comment / We must do more than mourn DG tragedies - we must change behaviours

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Carriers box clever on capacity and have 'the upper hand' as contract talks loom

Global Shippers Forum (GSF) Headlines

News / Carriers should 'share some of the risk', say shippers eyeing new contracts

News / To reshore or not to reshore the question for shippers as tariffs are 'bandied about'

News / Returning to Suez and rates: the shipping contract conundrum

News / Shippers brace for extra costs as carriers invoke force majeure

News / Shipping alliance shake-up will make waves during new contract season

COMPANY NOTICES

News / Shippers 'at a loss' as Red Sea ripples spread across container trades

News / FMC halts Gemini alliance and demands more info from Maersk and Hapag

News / EU ETS: 'the polluter pays', but the price 'must be more transparent'

Reports of mass global shift from China are being 'overplayed'

News / Buoyant North Africa – 'the new China' – bucks the air freight trend

Most read news

News / Maritime and rail carriers need to be more collaborative, say shippers

News / FMC sets up enforcement bureau 'with teeth' to police new shipping act

Comment / We must do more than mourn DG tragedies - we must change behaviours

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