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An Editor-to-Editor Podcast for JOC.com
Editor Dana L. Brundage and Senior Editor Peter T. Leach discuss ocean carriers' decision to stop supplying port truckers with chassis, how port truckers can obtain chassis from this point forward and how the industry will be impacted in this podcast.
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Q: Peter, more and more ocean carriers are announcing that they will no longer be providing chassis to port truckers in terminals in order to reduce costs, and therefore, it will be the responsibility of the port truckers to bring containers away from the terminals. What has been the general reaction to these announcements?
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TGIBSIN1786 - you are right, but the carriers did it to themselves.
Containerization in the US started by Malcolm McClean, had a chassis under every container - right, wrong or indifferent. As "intermodalism" came to being, in 1973, nothing changed, carriers continued to supply chassis. As one of those who started the "intermodalism" era, no one ever thought that it would grow and become what it has become. And during that time, the carriers have come to realize that it costs a lot of money to buy or lease and maintain chassis while everywhere else in the world someone else is responsible. So now the change. The supplying of chassis in the US was a self inflicted wound by carriers with change now taking place.
- By Kingston4811 on 8/9/10
Looks like the shippers need to pony up and finely pay for services rendered! Ship lines cant keep absorbing all the costs of inter-modal transportation.
- By TGIBSON1786 on 8/9/10
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