{"id":14071,"date":"2026-03-16T15:55:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/?post_type=news&p=14071"},"modified":"2026-03-17T09:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:15:29","slug":"shipping-lines-are-dumping-cargo-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/news\/shipping-lines-are-dumping-cargo-anywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Shipping Lines Are \u201cDumping Cargo Anywhere\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

International moving companies may find themselves caught up in \u201csafe port\u201d practices that are being used by shipping lines in response to the conflict in the Middle East.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freight forwarders have told The Loadstar<\/a> that they are seeing their shipping containers \u201cdumped anywhere,\u201d resulting in additional costs falling back on them. \u201cThere is the fee we are charged for the unloading, then they are also hitting us with storage charges. They drop these boxes anywhere they want, and they are offering us no support, often not even telling us until the container has been unloaded,\u201d claimed one forwarder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Loadstar reported an example of containers headed for Dubai having been left at Qingdao Port in China, the start of the vessel\u2019s journey. Another forwarder said that the carriers were trying to get cargo comparatively close to final destination. \u201cWe had a Saudi-destined box left in Egypt,\u201d they commented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chief Executive Vincent Clerk of Maersk, one of the shipping lines highlighted for the practice, told CNN, \u201cWe\u2019ve numerous ships that are on their way to the region, for which we have had to have contingencies about where they\u2019re going to drop cargo. They are not going to wait for the strait to reopen. We will stage the cargo either in Oman or in Jeddah, or in other places, in ports where we have access, and then the ship will go on its way to the next assignment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

International moving companies may find themselves caught up in \u201csafe port\u201d practices that are being used by shipping lines in response to the conflict in the Middle East. Freight forwarders have told The Loadstar that they are seeing their shipping containers \u201cdumped anywhere,\u201d resulting in additional costs falling back on them. \u201cThere is the fee we are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"footnotes":""},"news-category":[31],"class_list":["post-14071","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14073,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14071\/revisions\/14073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=14071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}