US draft bill seeks to ban container vessel sharing agreements

The drafted bill is a threat to carriers’ options for delivering effective services by sharing space on each other’s ships, comments World Shipping Council.
The Port of Long Beach was a dire bottleneck for US import during the pandemic. | Photo: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
The Port of Long Beach was a dire bottleneck for US import during the pandemic. | Photo: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix

Via legislative measure, a group of US congressmen are to stop container carriers’ permission to collaborate of space sharing on each other’s vessels.

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