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Nov 10, 2014 (newstodate): The airline industry has long levied a security surcharge on air cargo shipments.
-It seems, however, rather strange that freight forwarders must still pay a security surcharge on shipments after the full implementation by April 29, 2013, of 100 percent screening of all out-going airfreight shipments unless delivered at airports by registered "known consignors" and certified freight agents, says John Sorensen, Danish Freight Forwarders Association, chairman of the airfreight group and DHL Global Forwarding Strategic Customer Manager in Denmark.
-When asked for the logic behind this, airlines come up with all hazy explanations to convince us that their "security surcharge" is totally different from what is comprised by the obligatory screening by handling companies, known consignors and other certified parties.
-It seems hard to avoid a certain suspicion that this "security surcharge" is another veil over efforts to generate more revenues from cargo, like the rather slow synchronization of fuel surcharges to oil prices when world fuel prices go down, says Mr Sorensen.
-It seems, however, rather strange that freight forwarders must still pay a security surcharge on shipments after the full implementation by April 29, 2013, of 100 percent screening of all out-going airfreight shipments unless delivered at airports by registered "known consignors" and certified freight agents, says John Sorensen, Danish Freight Forwarders Association, chairman of the airfreight group and DHL Global Forwarding Strategic Customer Manager in Denmark.
-When asked for the logic behind this, airlines come up with all hazy explanations to convince us that their "security surcharge" is totally different from what is comprised by the obligatory screening by handling companies, known consignors and other certified parties.
-It seems hard to avoid a certain suspicion that this "security surcharge" is another veil over efforts to generate more revenues from cargo, like the rather slow synchronization of fuel surcharges to oil prices when world fuel prices go down, says Mr Sorensen.