Hacked CMA CGM, Affiliates Ask for Leniency on Rules at FMC
CMA CGM, American President Lines, APL, and ANL Singapore are asking the Federal Maritime Commission for permission to retroactively apply service contract rates and terms to shipments received on or after Sept. 27 for a period of 60 days (see 2010090022). Their petition also is asking for the ability to retroactively apply tariff rates communicated to its customers but that have not been published because of “major system impacts due to the recent cyber-attack.” The FMC is asking for public comments on this request through Oct. 15.
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The companies say they “will not use this flexibility to apply increased tariff rates or charges to customers absent an alternate form of written 30-day notice clearly communicated to customers.” The shipping lines, collectively the CMA Group, are not the first to be successfully hacked.