Container xChange: Few freight forwarders offer shipper owned container shipments
Only 18% of the 50 largest freight forwarders are able to offer Shipper Owned Containers (SOCs) due to difficulties handling SOC shipments operationally, a report by online platform Container xChange has found.
The platform organised a mystery shopping-style experiment with two fake companies asking for containers to be exported from China to Hamburg with 45 days storage.
The second test, in which Container xChange specified that SOCs were wanted, found that only three companies (DB Schenker, Kerry Logistics and XPO) could offer SOC shipments while five companies offered containers for buy or lease.
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