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When the Agriculture Transportation Coalition stages its annual meeting in San Francisco today and tomorrow, shippers will again be pleading with ocean carriers to explain why boxes are so hard to find.

Members cannot build that future alone, as its director general, Giovanni Bisignani,?noted in a recent address

Much has been made lately about higher freight transportation rates for shippers these days. Given the economic environment during that time, coupled with lack of consistent demand, tight credit and cash flow, and wildly fluctuating energy costs, there were—and continue to be—myriad challenges for shippers when managing supply chains during these still-challenging times.

?The Rotterdam Rules may soon replace the existing cargo liability regimes such as the Hamburg and Hague/Visby Rules.

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