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Given the fact that in certain ports there are a lot more import shipments compared to export shipments a certain surplus is building up. At some point the surplus becomes too large and the carrier shall decide to reposition this surplus to another area where they might have a shortage of containers. There is a certain cost to arrange this repositioning and container carriers will impose charges to cover this in the form of congestion charges, container imbalance surcharges, ...
