Logistics

DHL sues customer over pandemic freight rates

The parties agree that the cause of more expensive freight was bottlenecks. The question of who should pay will now be settled by the courts.
The pandemic left global consumers hungry for goods, especially from Asia. This created bottlenecks in supply chains and a lack of capacity at ports. | Photo: Frank Hoermann/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
The pandemic left global consumers hungry for goods, especially from Asia. This created bottlenecks in supply chains and a lack of capacity at ports. | Photo: Frank Hoermann/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
by SEBASTIAN SCHLÜTER JACOBSEN

The skyrocketing freight rates during the pandemic bottlenecks have caused a rift between DHL and Treco over the transportation of containers to Canada in 2022.

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