JAPAN/NORTH EUROPE CONFERENCE LIFTS WESTBOUND RATES

JAPAN/NORTH EUROPE CONFERENCE LIFTS WESTBOUND RATES

   The Japan Europe Freight Conference, the rate-making agreement in the Japan/northern Europe trade, will increase freight rates by $150 per TEU, effective April 1, 2000.
   The decision by the Japan/northern Europe conference follows a recent announcement by the Far Eastern Freight Conference that it would also lift westbound rates from Asia outside Japan to northern Europe, with effect from April.