Dirty Shipper Atlas Line (USA)

July 14, 2004 by
Filed under: Current Affairs 

Chief Wiggles Needs Our HELP!

Basically, the shipping company Atlas Line (USA), Inc. of Atlanta, GA was contracted by Operation Give to deliver donated toys to Iraqi children. They took a deposit of $10,000 per shipping container, which should have been passed on to their Kuwait affiliate/subsidiary. Now, 2 of the 3 containers are being held in Kuwait because the deposit was never passed on. Atlas Line in the US is refusing phone calls, and Operation Give has copies of the checks showing that they were deposited.

If you have any contacts in the shipping industry or Atlanta, please help. Also, please feel free to contact Atlas Line in Atlanta directly and politely express your opinion. The contact details are in the Chief Wiggles post.

UPDATE: Thanks for your help. Things seem to be fixed now (see Dean’s post) but it still sounds like something hinky was going on.

UPDATE: August 2, 2004 – It’s still a problem. See my post HERE for more info and links to people more deeply involved that me.

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4 Comments on Dirty Shipper Atlas Line (USA)

  1. Dean Esmay on Thu, 15th Jul 2004 12:55 am

    2. Please update your readers to let them know that, thanks to your efforts, the company that had been refusing to answer our calls after having our money for 30 days suddenly realized that they’d made a horrible mistake and scrambled to do the right thing.

    Thank you, thank you. We would never have gone public if we did not believe it was a last resort!

    Dean

  2. Mark on Mon, 2nd Aug 2004 4:26 pm

    3. Please note that Dean’s comment above no longer applies – 19 days later they still haven’t complied.

  3. forwarder on Fri, 20th Aug 2004 8:37 am

    4. many years in the business, i hate to see this,, a sure expeditious way to approach this is through the fmc and making a claim against the company’s FMC bond/ which should be in place. good luck.

  4. Atlas Line (USA) Really Is A Dirty Shipper : Mark Time on Mon, 19th Jan 2009 4:06 pm

    5. […] this article, I posted a link to Chief Wiggles’ site and a problem that they are having with Atlas Line […]

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