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Port Congestion Surcharge, is it the New Norm?

ShipLilly

Examples include port fires, inclement weather, and labor disputes. The first thing is to consider the discretion exercised by the shipping companies when calculating the congestion surcharge. For example, they may consider a percentage of the cargo or alternatively a percentage of one TEU. e) Influencing terminal operations.

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CMA CGM Caps Its Rates: What Does This Mean for Container Shipping?

ShipLilly

Others are of the view that this is nothing more than a public relations exercise without really dealing with spot capacity and price issues. There has been a significant imbalance between supply and demand for maritime container transport. CMA CGM noted this fact when making the announcement. Calls for the chaos to end.

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Container Lines Ordered to Explain their Detention and Demurrage Process

ShipLilly

Federal Maritime Regulators intervened, demanding that marine terminal operators and container lines explain how they are assessing detention and demurrage. Rebecca Dye is the Federal Maritime Commissioner (FMC) and has led an investigation and fact-finding exercise concerning the management of detention and demurrage.

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The beginning of the end for the Paper Bill of Lading

Shipping and Freight Resource

CMI – The Comité Maritime International, is a non-governmental organization established in Antwerp in 1897 with the objective of unification of maritime law in all its aspects. The transformation that has taken place in the airline industry is an example of what’s possible if we work together. The beginning.

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Port Congestion Surcharge, is it the New Norm?

ShipLilly

Examples include port fires, inclement weather, and labor disputes. The first thing is to consider the discretion exercised by the shipping companies when calculating the congestion surcharge. For example, they may consider a percentage of the cargo or alternatively a percentage of one TEU. e) Influencing terminal operations.

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The Changing Face of Supply Chain Security

Logistics Bureau

Examples are pre-hiring and background checks. Goods origination, third-party security, foreign customs are examples. This covers security policies, threat awareness, security training, exercises. Examples are ERP for manufacturing, CRM for sales and operations, and TMS for transport management. Business partner.

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Swinging into action – reflections on East Timor by a logistics Unit Commander Part Three

Logistics in War

When we returned to Australia, I tasked an officer (who did not deploy with us) to take our War Diary and write a Command Post Exercise using the Battalion Ops Log to build in the many Lower and Higher Control problems with which unit operations staff would have to deal. An additional example was the Terminal Troop.