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What Are General Rate Increases in Shipping & What Should Enterprises Know?

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They can be based on a variety of factors such as the size of the load, how much a pallet weighs, how far a cargo container has to be carried, and where the final delivery destination location lies. Virgin Islands) and between the contiguous U.S. FedEx Freight shipping rates will increase by an average of 4.9% and Canada.

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Doing Business in the United States

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Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and 11 uninhabited or sparsely inhabited territories, which are mostly small islands. For comparison, this makes the country about half the size of Russia or South America, and more than twice the size of the European Union. Cargo transportation in the U.S.