Some shipping lines are demanding that truckers start supplying their own container chassis — a move that many in the international supply chain are watching closely.
Atlantic Container Line (ACL), recently announced that as of June 1, 2010, it will no longer provide chassis to contracted truckers and it will shift all of its carrier arranged trucking moves in the U.S. to fleets that furnish their own chassis.
Larger competitors like Evergreen Marine and Maersk Line are said to be monitoring these situations closely. Several million of chassis in the U.S. would be affected if these two companies were to follow suit with similar changes.