ISRAELI AUTHORITIES ASKS DELAY IN EMITA’S CHARGES
The European Shippers’ Council said on Jan. 22 that Israel’s anti-trust authority has requested members of the European Mediterranean Trade Agreement (EMTA) to postpone implementing terminal handling charges in Israel for 60 days.
The Israeli authority had deferred EMTA’s terminal handling charges, pending further study. There have been no such surcharges levied in Israel for 50 years, the Shippers’ Council said.
The council called outrage in Israel about the terminal handling charges an “emotive response of shippers to the cartel behavior of liner shipping conferences. The ESC has always campaigned for an all-in freight rate,” the council said in a statement.