A WIDE range of legal risks are surfacing from cost-saving slow steaming, according to lawyers John Reeder and Ravi Aswani, of the London law firm, Stone Chambers.

The freight rate war currently taking place between Asia and Europe, and between Asia and the US, and the further addition of new ships, will force carriers to resort to more slow steaming.Although slow steaming continues to be a contentious issue with shippers, more is on the way as fuel prices remain stubbornly high and ocean carriers can no longer absorb the bill due to the

THE last eight-week rotation on the Far East-North Europe route - the CSCL/Evergreen AEX 1/CEM service - will switch to slow steaming on April 20, thus making the trade lane the first to be entirely taken up with once novel fuel saving technique, reports Alphaliner.