[photopress:matson.jpg,full,alignright]A most unusual move by Matson Navigation and J.B. Hunt Transport Services. Together they are offering money-back guarantees on shipments from China. No other shipper appears to offer any such guarantee.
Under this new system shippers can order single-invoice shipping from Ningbo and Shanghai to Long Beach, California with Matson guaranteeing a percentage refund for packages not arriving at selected destinations by a stated date.
Or, a second option, the idea can be exteneded beyond there to include transportation to selected U.S destinations which is where J.B. Hunt, one of America’s largest transportation logistics companies, comes in. J.B. Hunt uses outsized 53-foot containers that allow consolidation of cargo from ocean containers into a smaller number of domestic containers.
A recent Drewry Shipping Consultants survey ranked Matson as the No. 1 on-time carrier in the world. Matson’s transit time from Shanghai is typically 11 days with next day cargo availability in Long Beach.
Source: Pacific Business News