OOCL stops providing chassis to truckers in nine US cities

HONG KONG's OOCL has announced that it will no longer provide chassis for truckers in Denver, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Milwaukee, Mobile, New Orleans, Oakland, Salt Lake City and Wilmington, North Carolina.


OOCL said truckers must provide chassis themselves and bill their customers. This is the third stage of weaning American truckers from the provision of chassis after OOCL told the trade in July that it would stop the practice in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh from September.


After that, the no-chassis policy was extended to Buffalo, El Paso, Harrisburg, Huntsville, Jacksonville, Laredo and Tampa on January 1.


Other ocean carriers have done the same over the last year. In August 2009, Maersk ended its free chassis scheme and charged US$11 a day. Hanjin then stopped offering chassis in Miami and Philadelphia. Hamburg Sud stopped doing it in Philadelphia last month to be joined by Hapag-Lloyd a week later announcing it was bowing out of the chassis business too. By now NYK, Evergreen, Yang Ming, Hyundai, CMA CGM and ACL have made similar decisions.
(Source:http://www.schednet.com)