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Disgruntled former CSCL customers leaving China Cosco Shipping

Posted on August 10, 2016 by just2bruce | Comments Off

Shippers want service. If you mess up, they won’t stay with you. It’s the new reality. And it includes all kinds of service from pickup to final destination of the cargo.

Splash24/7 has some good articles. This one is by Sam Chambers.

Disgruntled shippers are leaving in their droves from the company that used to be known as China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) following its merger with Cosco earlier this year. CSCL joined forces with Cosco Container Lines to form China Cosco Shipping this March – a move pushed by Beijing which has been aiming to get […]

Source: Disgruntled former CSCL customers leaving China Cosco Shipping in their droves – Splash 247

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Terminals in Ports of L.A., Long Beach move container chassis fee to September 1

Posted on August 10, 2016 by just2bruce | Comments Off

Again the container chassis issue creates controversy. Leasing companies created a ‘pool of pools’ in the LA/Long Beach area but are not paying port operators for services and storage performed on or by the port operators. The $5 fee on a loaded chassis (whether the container is empty or not) is supposed to cover this work.

It’s another example of how hard it is to get a pool to work well. Normal ways of compensating participants are not usually fair to all parties; nor do they usually act to keep the pool together. But here the issue is simply that the pool is skimming profits by benefiting from free work by a non-participant; or we could look at the terminals as a dummy participant that contributes no chassis but pays anyway.

We have a talk on a related aspect at the IAME 2016 annual conference in Hamburg later this month.

LONG BEACH, Calif.–The West Coast MTO Agreement (WCMTOA) has extended the implementation date of a new tariff rule for chassis services by one month.