Ocean carriers' financial losses are now so bad that desperate measures appear necessary to resolve the situation.rnIn addition to asking customers to pay higher freight rates for slower services (without any downward adjustment to bunker surcharges), there is now a peak season surcharge from Asia to Europe in the slack season.rnCOSCON has asked customers to pay an emergency peak season surcharge (EPS) of USD200/TEU from the Far East to Europe from February 1, 2010 until further notice.
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