These huge new ships for 18,000 containers will be such cost savers that 13,000 TEU ships will not be able to compete. And so what about the Panama Canal, which cannot accept them?
Global Supply Chain News: Maersk Triple E Cost Advantages are Too Great to Ignore.
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Who is going to supply chassis for containers in the US? It’s an ongoing question I’ve been interested in for a while. Ocean carriers used to do it; they owned about 30% of all chassis used to move shipping containers around. Now they have opted out. Well, not exactly; they formed a separate company called CCM to pool chassis and rent them to carriers. but some companies are concerned about availability and road-ability, and could move to private fleets. Here’s a story about one.
Port Strategy newsletter says two US senators introduced legislation to change the taxing of cargo to raise more money and to prevent cargo escaping the fees by coming through Canadian ports and coming in by rail. The Harbor Maintenance Tax is currently not always collected, and is open to the run-around through Canada with rail entry.
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