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Move to achieve all-round improvement :
GSF calls for more collaboration
Sanjeevi JAYASURIYA
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Rohan Masakorala
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The Global Shippers’ Forum (GSF) has called upon different sectors of
the freight and logistics industry for more collaboration of a
constructive nature with the GSF and its members.
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* Members affirm support for continuous
involvement
* Liberalization brou- ght about through
regulatory reform
* Asia to remain focal point for GSF campaign
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The joint development of best practices, the building of awareness
and promulgation of good practices will help improve safety, remove
inefficiency and expose areas where door-to-door service performance can
be improved, Asian Shippers’ Council Secretary General Rohan Masakorala
told Daily News Business.
The GSF and its members welcomed the development by the International
Chamber of Shipping of a guide to Container Stuffing Best Practices and
have agreed to promulgate the practices identified, he said.
The Global Shippers’ Forum meeting was held in London recently where
the members affirmed their support for continuous involvement on the
global stage in debates concerning climate change, security, competition
and free trade.
The Asian Shippers’ Council (ASC) is a member of the GSF, a global
representative of shippers and Sri Lanka is represented through the ASC.
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A cargo vessel |
The GSF emphasized its determination to support and advance previous
policies and campaigns in a number of key areas such as maritime
regulatory reforms, economically and environmentally sustainable freight
transport services and a proportionate risk based common approach to
supply chain and freight transport security, he said.
The liberalization brought about through regulatory reform would
enable the liner shipping sector to achieve efficiency and operating
practices viable and competitive options for its customers.
The growing number and expansion is the scope of some liner shipping
alliances or consortia was an area that should be monitored more closely
by the regulatory authorities, he said.
The GSF agreed to support the legitimate formation and operation of
non-rate making liner shipping agreements for efficiency to support
regulatory reform outlaw rate-making cartels in other parts of the world
and appealed to Asian Governments to initiate reforms which are in line
with competitive global practices.
Asia would remain the focal point for the GSF campaign on such
regulatory reform of the liner shipping sector, he said. |
