Slow recovery drives more US trucking firms to dedicated contracts
As the long awaited recovery in the trucking sector remains mired in contraction, large US ...
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The US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has ruled in favour of the American Trucking Association (ATA), upholding a decision allowing US truckers to choose their own chassis provider.
The association said: “ATA’s Intermodal Motor Carriers Conference (IMCC) hailed yesterday’s action by the full FMC to uphold the 2023 decision of an FMC administrative law judge that this conduct violated the Shipping Act.”
The IMCC filed a complaint with the FMC in August 2020, alleging that the Ocean Carrier Equipment Management Association (OCEMA), ...
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Ramon Silva
February 15, 2024 at 4:42 pmThis is a great victory not only for the truckers, but also for the importers. Still hurts when remember the unfair demurrages paid because “no chassis”
Borries Broszio
February 16, 2024 at 8:48 amHope now , that the enormous sums paid for unfair demourrages in 2020 to 2024 will have to be repayed by the ocean carriers to the importers.