MSC Denies Imposing Unfair Fees, Violating Shipping Act
MSC, one of the world’s leading container shipping lines, denied allegations made by a logistics company that it violated the Shipping Act, saying this week that the company’s October complaint to the Federal Maritime Commission (see 2210260029) was “so vague and ambiguous as to make it impractical” to “submit a reasonable answer.” MSC said it didn’t fail to provide adequate time to return containers for U.S.-based MVM Logistics and denied a host of other allegations by the company, including that it committed unfair shipping and handling practices that MVM said left it with $800,000 in fines.
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MSC said it’s “not clear about both the claimed violations and the factual allegations said to support them,” adding that all of its actions were "reasonable." Any "alleged damages sustained by the Complainant were proximately, directly, and solely caused by the acts of third persons over whom the Respondent had and has no direction or control,” the shipping line said, adding that FMC should dismiss the complaint.