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The Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (TSA) seeks a base-rate increase of $190 per 40-foot container (FEU) on US imports from Japan. TSA wants increased rates on shipments under both tariffs and service contracts. However, an oversupply of vessel capacity may impede TSA's plan. Furthermore, TSA is not a shipping conference and its decisions are not binding on its members. Non-conference shipping lines may increase their rates up to $50 per FEU only., Would affect both tariff and contract shipments. A base-rate increase of $190 per 40-foot container (FEU) on U.S. imports from Japan is the declared goal of a coalition of 13 [...]

In response to the sharp increases in diesel-fuel prices last fall, the trucking industry is calling upon the federal Justice Department to launch an investigation. Last October, a new federal [...]

A series of LTL rate increases greeted shippers as the new year began. The question is, will they be followed by further hikes before the year is over? Most of [...]

After posting big gains over the summer, intermodal rates in October experienced their sharpest fall since February, dropping 3.4 percent from September. Although demand for containers is still strong, the [...]

Although they are generally satisfied with existing LTL freight pricing practices, shippers still see some room for improvement. That is the principal finding of a recent University of Tennessee survey [...]

Has the rampant rate cutting reported in the past few years tapered off? What sort of percentage-off discounts are being offered to shippers today? In an effort to answer those [...]

Motor carriers are trying a variety of methods to boost bottom lines. Earlier this year, shippers had high hopes that they would get through 1993 with only the single round [...]

Freight costs took an upward turn in July. Despite the erratic seasonal variations in transportation rates, costs appear to be rising for several modes of shipping. The aggregate cost index, [...]

The story line has long been that small shippers have paid dearly for the discounts big shippers have won from their motor carriers in the age of deregulation. But now [...]

Orlando, FL -- Unlike a lot of catalogers the majority of Florida's gift fruit catalogers have remained relatively immune to United Parcel Service and Parcel Post rate hikes. How? Most [...]

MEMBER shipping lines in the Transpacific Westbound Rate Agreement (TWRA) have approved a series of rate actions on refrigerated commodities. Rates for frozen beef will be increased by US$8 per [...]

TWRA Lowers Korean Surcharge The TransPacific Westbound Rate Agreement (TWRA) has lowered its currency adjustment factor on shipments moving from North America to Korea from 8 percent to 7 percent, [...]

Labor concerns dominate transport cost outlook The second-quarter outlook for transportation costs is dominated by upcoming labor negotiations in the railroad and trucking industries. However, the next labor agreement primarily [...]

Kurt Hoffman, who writes for this magazine on a variety of transportation subjects, has been looking at freight billing techniques, with emphasis on a trucking industry where rates increasingly are [...]

United Parcel Service raises rates under new regulation.

Bulky shipments: Three new types of minimum charges At the urging of the Interstate Commerce Commission, most LTL motor common carriers that had earlier published so-called 'linear foot' minimum-charge rules [...]