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U.S. FMC accuses containerized shipping carriers of harming U.S. agricultural exports
Shipping companies would not make empty containers available
December 10, 2020
"Some maritime carriers, not all of them, have denounced the FMC President Michael Khouri - have announced that they will not will distribute more, i.e. they will not reposition, the empty containers in the domestic agricultural areas of the United States, which they're sending to Asia instead. This abandonment of industry american agriculture, which is an important industry exporter of the United States, is excluding it from the Global. We are evaluating - khouri pointed out - all of them, and I repeat all possible response initiatives, including an investigation into whether the actions of these sea carriers are fully compliance with the Shipping Act and, more specifically, with the various prohibited acts sections of the act.
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"Some maritime carriers, not all of them, have denounced the FMC President Michael Khouri - have announced that they will not will distribute more, i.e. they will not reposition, the empty containers in the domestic agricultural areas of the United States, which they're sending to Asia instead. This abandonment of industry american agriculture, which is an important industry exporter of the United States, is excluding it from the Global. We are evaluating - khouri pointed out - all of them, and I repeat all possible response initiatives, including an investigation into whether the actions of these sea carriers are fully compliance with the Shipping Act and, more specifically, with the various prohibited acts sections of the act.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
