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AUG 22, 2003 (newstodate): The introduction of the German road tax, the "Maut", is estimated to add app. 0.02 euro, or DKK 0.15, per kilo to the cost of air freight in Denmark.
-It is not in itself a significant cost increase, but it will nevertheless be a disadvantage for airlines relying on trucking their cargo down from Scandinavia to hubs in continental Europe, says Kim Pedersen, Wilson Logistics deputy managing director.
-The effect may not be decisive, but it may have some impact on the competitiveness of airfreight forwarders, who lift their shipments directly out of Denmark rather than truck them into continental hubs as do the forwarders based in Germany or other central European countries.
According to Mr Pedersen, a recent survey among Danish shippers found that they are strongly against the new cost being levied by airlines as another "surcharge".
-Shippers unanimously prefer to have costs consolidated into a solid cargo rate to be negotiated with the market, rather than frozen in the form of a non-negotiable surcharge based on non-intransigent calculations, says Kim Pedersen.
-It is not in itself a significant cost increase, but it will nevertheless be a disadvantage for airlines relying on trucking their cargo down from Scandinavia to hubs in continental Europe, says Kim Pedersen, Wilson Logistics deputy managing director.
-The effect may not be decisive, but it may have some impact on the competitiveness of airfreight forwarders, who lift their shipments directly out of Denmark rather than truck them into continental hubs as do the forwarders based in Germany or other central European countries.
According to Mr Pedersen, a recent survey among Danish shippers found that they are strongly against the new cost being levied by airlines as another "surcharge".
-Shippers unanimously prefer to have costs consolidated into a solid cargo rate to be negotiated with the market, rather than frozen in the form of a non-negotiable surcharge based on non-intransigent calculations, says Kim Pedersen.