Asean federation takes its international counterpart TSA head-on after the latter chooses to deal with individual councils

By Nicholas Fang

SHIPPERS in the region are at their wits' end after having been confounded by shipping lines over the long-held bone of contention between the two parties - terminal handling charges or THCs.

In a dramatic sequence of events last week, the Federation of Asean Shippers' Councils (FASC) and the Transpacific Stabilisation Agreement (TSA), a grouping of 14 major container shipping lines plying routes between Asia and the United States, clashed over THCs which have been disputed since their introduction over a decade ago ......
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