Masakorala criticizes shipping lines for anti-competitive practices

August 8, 2010, 7:23 pm

 With shipping lines charging congestion surcharges from consignees the Secretary General of the Asian Shippers’ Council, Sri Lankan Rohan Masakorala, says Asian government’s should adopt laws to tackle anti competitive practices as the US and European bloc have already done.

"It is interesting that the delays in port operations for various reasons are charged back to the consignees as congestion surcharges by liner companies. It is ironic that these lines tend to punish their customers, "the shippers", when their service arrangements are disrupted by ports where they come into terminal agreements and so on," Masakorala said as quoted by the International Freighting Weekly. 

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