• 04 Jun 2025
• SCGLogistics

Transportation charged has been removed from

At present, there is no sign indicating that international logistics transportation costs will be completely abolished.

In some individual cases, there may be the cancellation or adjustment of some routes and some surcharges. For instance, in 2024, Maersk abolished the peak season surcharge (PSS) for certain routes from all Chinese ports to Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, etc. However, this was only a partial adjustment of the surcharge for specific routes by a particular company, and not the cancellation of all transportation fees.

From the perspective of the entire industry, in 2025, international logistics fees not only do not show a trend of being completely abolished, but there is even an upward trend. For instance, UPS will impose holiday surcharges on some parcel services from October 6, 2024 to January 19, 2025, and increase the rates of its ground transportation, air transportation and international logistics services starting from December 23, 2024, etc. FedEx will increase the freight rates for domestic and U.S. import and export services starting from January 6, 2025. DHL will increase freight rates in multiple regions starting from January 1, 2025. Shipping companies such as Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd and Wan Hai Line have also raised their rates.

International logistics transportation costs are influenced by multiple factors, including transportation routes, transportation modes, fuel prices, the supply and demand relationship of transportation capacity, and geopolitics. The general increase in global logistics costs, such as fluctuations in fuel prices, changes in tight or loose transportation capacity, and geopolitical conflicts, all make it difficult to completely eliminate logistics rates, and even lead to an upward trend or frequent fluctuations.

Although there may be some local fee reductions or adjustments during certain special periods or specific circumstances, such as the exemption of some demurrage and rebooking fees for certain business of Shanghai Port by some shipping companies during the epidemic, these are only short-term and local measures and not the norm.

To sum up, the possibility of a complete cancellation of international logistics transportation costs is extremely small. It is expected that they will remain fluctuating or be adjusted to a certain extent due to various factors in the future, but a complete cancellation will not occur.