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Joint Press Release: Transport workers, operators and shippers unite to lift global standards on driver treatment
Brussels, Geneva and London, 20 May 2021 – The leaders of three major international organisations, representing transport workers, operators and shippers have launched a charter to improve how truck and van drivers are treated at collection and delivery sites. Globally,
GSA webinar: “SUEZ CANAL: What else for global shippers?”
30 April, 2021, Global Shippers’ Alliance hold "SUEZ CANAL: what else for global shippers?" webinar. The scope of the webinar covered the recent events triggered from the Suez Canal blockage and observations on how the level playing field between maritime
US: the Federal Maritime Commission is investigating the activities of ocean carrier alliances
The Federal Maritime Commission met virtually and in closed session on the 7th of April 2021 to discuss developments in the ongoing Fact Finding 29 investigation of challenges to the freight delivery system and possible Shipping Act violations, and to
European shippers call on European Commission to take action
25th of March 2021, European Shippers’ Council voiced shippers’ position on unreliability and peaking prices in the maritime container transport at the meeting organised by the European Commission. The Maritime Forum gathered maritime stakeholders - shippers, freight forwarders, carriers, port
Outcry of shippers worldwide at current shipping crisis
Shippers worldwide are furious at the chaotic shipping market and the lack of mechanisms to resolve it. The Global Shippers’ Alliance (GSA) and its individual members said that the impairments brought were immense, and global economies and the public suffered
European shippers and freight forwarders urge carriers to stop current practices that slow economic recovery
Since the outbreak of the global pandemic, the container imbalance and the reduction of capacity in liner shipping has seriously impacted on the shippers and freight forwarders who have been seeking to ensure the fluidity of their global supply chains,