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George Zimmer posted:Just curious, anyone working with the recent Hanjin meltdown? I work at a small exports company in Australia and we got pretty screwed by this! We had booked months of business at Hanjin rates. The day the news went out, we had 20 containers sitting on the wharf waiting to be shipped. So of course, all our Hanjin bookings were cancelled immediately along with several upcoming bookings with other lines using their vessels. Then we had to wrestle with the local Hanjin office to get our boxes off the wharf - they initially wanted a $2k deposit per container, in addition to the wharf and customs fees and the cost to reload everything and ship with someone else. Boss told them to get hosed and threatened lawyers, which surprisingly was enough to get our cargo out. I don't know what the legal status would have been if they'd refused to let us collect and the containers sat there accruing storage fees, or whether we'd ever get our money back if we paid the deposit. I'd be interested to know what happened with other shippers who were in this situation. All in all it has been an interesting few weeks  Bonus: somewhat cringey summary of the Hanjin debacle set to Hotel California: https://www.lloydslistaustralia.com...nia-537109.html
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