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<div>Growing investment in mining and mining equipment and booming vehicle exports from China are driving a surge in vehicle carrier charter and freight rates, shipping executives tell JOC.com. The buoyant market is also fueling a fresh round of new construction orders for roll-on/roll-off (ro/ro) ships, they added. </div><div>This includes a deal for 10 pure truck and car carriers planned by Naples, Italy-headquartered ro/ro operator Grimaldi Group. </div><div>“We are close to signing a further order of 10 more 9,000 CEU [car equivalent unit] car carriers ...,” Grimaldi managing director Emanuele Grimaldi said at the EUROMED land to sea convention last week....

Recovering automobile exports and demand for high and heavy cargo are driving a ro/ro resurgence and a spate of new ship orders.  

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The Federal Maritime Commission said its enforcement agency does not have a case against the ocean carrier over a congestion surcharge complaint from a shipper.  

If shippers found the post-IMO 2020 bunker fuel formulas confusing and misaligned across ocean carriers, just wait until they see the surcharges linked to Europe’s new emissions trading system, says analyst Lars Jensen.

Brokered LTL freight may be the first freight diverted away from Estes, and it may be harder for those transactional shipments to find alternate carriers. 

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