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HMM, South Korea’s flagship service, has gone on the assault in its bid to rebut overcharging claims levelled by Samsung Electronics America.
Having lodged circumstances with the Federal Maritime Fee (FMC) in Washington DC in opposition to COSCO, OOCL, SM Line and ZIM, Samsung Electronics America went after HMM final month, claiming the service imposed round 96,000 detention and demurrage fees which it labelled “misguided” in a 24-page doc.
HMM has simply fired again lodging a $13m swimsuit at a court docket in California, over what it claims are unpaid payments, in addition to searching for to dismiss the case lodged with the FMC.
The FMC has been besieged with file numbers of shipper complaints in the course of the interval of liner delivery’s best period of earnings. The fee’s powers have been strengthened two years in the past with the passing of the Ocean Delivery Reform Act.