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US agricultural shippers and forwarders have lashed out at “insane” and “appalling” “huge mistake” by shipping lines, which will impose a “street turns” fee next month. 

Carriers including Zim and HMM have announced that, from February 4, they will impose charges of between $40 and $75 for containers which are fully used in both directions. 

Round trips, or street turns, reduce congestion, emissions, demand for container and chassis supply and cut costs. But, in an addendum to the Uniform Intermodal Interchange and Facilities Access Agreement sent ...

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  • Henry Gorski

    January 15, 2019 at 4:17 pm

    On the street turn charges MSC have been doing this for years in the UK in the vain attempt to get the customers to use their own trucking operation !

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