Bengaluru: The rise in commercial fuel charges has now led to top logistics companies increasing their freight charges for ecommerce shipments. This may impact the end pricing for online consumers as sellers contemplate if they want to pass on the rising freight charges to the consumer.
\nDelhivery, one of the largest third-party ecommerce delivery companies, has decided to increase freight charges by 30% effective April 1 for \u201cDelhivery Air and Surface\u201d. Logistics aggregator Shiprocket, which works with Delhivery, told its clients of the steep increase in the charges from Friday. ET has reviewed the note. \u201cThis is on account of the steep rise being witnessed in commercial fuel charges over the recent weeks and other systemic factors in the logistics markets.\u201d
\nThe decision to increase freight charges comes at a time when petrol prices have crossed Rs 100 mark in several major cities. The price of diesel has also hit the Rs 100 mark in Mumbai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bengaluru: The rise in commercial fuel charges has now led to top logistics companies increasing their freight charges for ecommerce shipments. This may impact the end pricing for online consumers as sellers contemplate if they want to pass on the rising freight charges to the consumer. Delhivery, one of the largest third-party ecommerce delivery companies, has decided to increase freight charges by 30% effective April 1 for \u201cDelhivery Air and Surface\u201d. Logistics aggregator Shiprocket, which works with Delhivery, told its clients of the steep increase in the charges from Friday. ET has reviewed the note. \u201cThis is on account of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}