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China, eleven primary companies of line have promised a consisting reduction of the Terminals Handling Charge
Previewed a annual cut of the costs of cargo handling in the ports pairs to approximately 510 million dollars
March 2, 2017
the Chinese National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), in the picture of the assessments you mail in existence on sollicitation of Chinese companies that - with reference to their marine shipments and the goods that they import via sea - have complained the application of soprannoli of high and adopted amount in not transparent way, has announced that eleven primary world-wide companies of navigation of the field of the containerized marine transport have sent a communication to the NDRC and the Ministry of Transportation of Beijing in which they have been engaged to voluntarily diminish the amount of the Terminals Handling Charge (THC), costs for the activities of handling ofthe cargos in the ports that are debited by the terminalisti to the navigation companies that to they time generally charge their customers.
Such engagements are assumed by Chinese company COSCO Shipping, that 87 dollars have assured the reduction of the -16,9% of the amount of the THC from 717 yuan (104 dollars) to 596 yuan (), from the Danish Maersk Line, that she will reduce also it amount of the -16,9% from 681 to 566 yuan, from the Helvetian Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), that has announced a more substantial reduction (- 21.9%) coming down from 644 to 503 yuan, from the French CMA CGM, than have been engaged to cut the soprannolo from 695 to 560 yuan (- 19.4%), from company APL, that it takes part of the group CMA CGM, that has promised to diminish the surcharge from 676 to 576 yuan (- 14.8%), from the Hapag-Lloyd German, than will reduce it from 696 to 607 yuan (- 12.8%), from the taiwanese Evergreen Marine Corporation, that will cut the THC from 639 to 542 yuan (- 15.2%), from the South Korean Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM), that it has communicated the intention to pass from 706 to 592 yuan (- 16.1%), from the Japanese Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), than respective will reduce the THC from 711 to 577 yuan (- 18.8%) and from 678 to 564 yuan (- 16.8%), and from the Sinotrans Chinese, than she will reduce it from 664 to 575 yuan (- 13.4%).
NDRC has specified that, second the esteem, such reductions of the THC will produce to a annual saving of the costs of cargo handling in the ports pairs to approximately 3,5 billion yuan (510 million dollars).
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