The Hidden #Fees Making Your Bananas, and Everything Else, #Cost More
#Hapag had made it “extremely difficult” to return empty #containers, the trucking company said, and it was often left holding them for a month, all while Hapag continued to charge the firm $400 a day for each container that wasn’t returned on time. One trucking company that the importer contacted said it almost had to shut down temporarily because all the chassis — the steel frames with wheels that attach to trucks — that it needed to pull new loads from the ports were sitting under 70 empty containers that Hapag refused to take back.
#inflation #profit #capitalism #economy #trade #problem #news #truck #transport #container
