Consolidated Chassis Management operates six regional cooperative pools. The trend follows a similar method that is used in Europe and Asia, where chassis are provided by truckers, forwarders or shippers.
The move continues a trend in the disengagement of chassis ownership and operation by container ship lines in the U.S. market. More motor carriers are beginning to take more of the responsibility for containers.
IMC is one of several companies in the Intermodal Carrier Conference studying creation of a motor carrier cooperative that would purchase the chassis from ocean carriers. The trend follows a similar method that is used in Europe and Asia, where chassis are provided by truckers, forwarders or shippers.
Consolidated Chassis Management is co-owned by 18 container ship lines, and operates six regional cooperative pools.
Chairman Mark H. George said in announcing the deal. “Simply said, the cooperative’s desire would be to replace ocean carrier or other owning entities’ ownership with NACPC ownership and to have an active say in managing the chassis through participation in a CCM pool.”