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FreightWaves explores the archives of American Shipper’s nearly 70-year-old collection of shipping and maritime publications to showcase interesting freight stories of long ago.
In this week’s edition, from the January 1978 issue, FreightWaves explores a battle between shipper and container lines over a new surcharge.
Shippers critical of 10% surcharge to offset losses from strike; CPA called in to help settle the issue
Eight inches of snow didn’t stop nearly 200 shippers from attending a National Maritime Council forum on the Federal Maritime Commission regulation of liner shipping in Chicago on December 8.
What the Commission’s two representatives, Chairman Richard J. Daschbach and Geoffrey Rodgers, director of the New York field office, found was that Midwest shippers are concerned about the length of FMC proceedings, the unpredictability of conference rates, the dual-rate contract system, the possibility of the imposition of an emergency surcharge by North Atlantic conferences to recoup losses from the recent longshoremen’s strike, rate disparities between inbound and outbound conferences serving the same points, and the Department of Justice interventions before the FMC.
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