Cross-border trading between Afghanistan and Pakistan, via the southwestern port of Karachi in Pakistan, has been brought to a virtual standstill as both the Taliban and Pakistani authorities delay traffic.
As if conflict, border controls and burgeoning freight rates were not enough to drive Afghan forwarders and shippers to the wall, they are now having to deal with seemingly intransigent shipping lines insistent on collecting soaring detention & demurrage (D&D) charges.
Since …

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