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Discussions on the Union Customs Code (UCC) still cannot be finalized as the European Commission has been forced to revise the legislation on transitional measures, warns the European Shippers Council. As the UCC is due to enter into gradually into force from 1 May 2016, this will reduce the time for implementation for traders, says the ESC, adding that the new legislation will be less clear in certain areas. The ESC ...
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European forwarders' association CLECAT and the European Shippers’ Council (ESC) have written to the European Commission to warning of a potential lack of capacity for international freight trains on major routes. The associations urge Member States to give priority to international freight trains in order to ensure the proper functioning ...
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The European Shippers’ Council has urged the European Commission to take action to stop Turkey from levying additional customs duties on goods entering from the European Union, which it says violates the customs union signed in 1995. ESC says that Turkey has imposed duties on footwear, textile, chemicals, pharmaceutical products, ...
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The European Shippers’ Council has come out in favour of the merger between TNT and FedEx, despite opposing UPS's mooted takeover of TNT a few years ago. It says that while its members omplained about the possibility of losing one of the three European express carriers and resultant lack of ...
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The European Shippers' Council has released a white paper on container transport competition ahead of a summit between the US, China and Europe in Brussels on 18 June.
ESC warns that the market has evolved into one where a monopoly of four alliances have “impressive market shares in certain trade ...
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The European Shippers’ Council (ESC), the Asian Shippers’ Association (ASA) and the American Association of Exporters and Importers (AAEI) are to form a Global Shippers’ Alliance, to represent shippers’ interests worldwide.
Under a memorandum of understanding signed on 19 March, the will increase cooperation in air freight, maritime transport and trade ...
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The European Shippers' Council has described the latest round of congestion surcharges imposed by lines as “unacceptable”. ESC says it sees no reason to impose them and urges ship owners to minimize surcharges and bring all costs into a single negotiable freight rate wherever possible.
Over the last few weeks, congestion ...
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The Netherlands has become the first country in the world to offer digital signing for receipt of goods by mobile phone, according to the European Shippers' Council. The Dutch Shippers’ Council (EVO), Transport and Logistics Netherlands and the NBB Dutch Inland Shipping Bureau have put together the necessary infrastructure. ESC ...
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The European Shippers’ Council (ESC) complained that there was integrated vision for AEOs (Authorised Economic Operators) at either the European Union or national customs administrations, in its ‘AEO manifesto’ to the European Commission presented on 30 July. The manifesto gives an indication of how, five years after the introduction of ...
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The European Shippers’ Council (ESC) said that it would target unecessarily strict supply chain security rules at the sixth round of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations in Brussels on 16 July. ESC said that removing over-strict regulations could be an important element of removing non-tariff barriers to ...
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