{"id":1945,"date":"2020-09-01T06:15:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T05:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2020-09-01T06:15:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T05:15:05","slug":"mearsk-line-suspends-peak-season-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/01\/mearsk-line-suspends-peak-season-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Mearsk Line Suspends Peak Season Charge."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Hassan-Bello-e1552287017975.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1591\" width=\"481\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Hassan-Bello-e1552287017975.jpg 755w, https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Hassan-Bello-e1552287017975-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><figcaption>Executive Secretary and CEO, Hassan Bello<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mearsk Line Nigeria Ltd has bowed to pressure and reversed an earlier introduction of peak season charge.\u00a0 The reversal followed an intervention by Hassan Bello,\u00a0 Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shippers&#8217; Council. In a statement in Lagos,\u00a0Mearsk Line said it has instructed its commercial department to suspend the controversial charge\u00a0effective September 1, 2020. It would be recalled that the Nigerian Shippers Council had protested to the African Union of Shippers Councils on the introduction of the arbitrary charges by Mearsk Line and had asked for its immediate scrapping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Shipping World magazine can confirm on good authority that in a letter signed by\u00a0 Mearsk Line Nigeria Representative, Lara\u00a0Lana and addressed to Nigerian Shippers Council, it\u00a0conveyed the decision of its head office to scrap the obnoxious peak charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mearsk Line Nigeria Ltd has bowed to pressure and reversed an earlier introduction of peak season charge.&nbsp; The reversal followed an intervention by Hassan Bello,&nbsp; Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shippers&rsquo; Council. In a statement in Lagos,&nbsp;Mearsk Line said it has instructed its commercial department to suspend the controversial charge&nbsp;effective September 1, 2020. It would be recalled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[502,443,486],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-mearsk-line-nigeria-ltd","tag-nigerian-shippers-council","tag-shipping-world-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}