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The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach connected Monday, Dec. 21, erstwhile again delayed imposing cargo dwell fees connected water carriers, saying advancement continues successful clearing larboard areas of aging containers.
The interest volition beryllium reconsidered connected Monday, Dec. 27, erstwhile some larboard directors volition reassess implementation based connected cargo travel data.
Since the interest was announced connected Oct. 27, some ports person seen a combined 46% driblet successful aging cargo connected the docks. The 90-day interest argumentation was passed by some harbor commissions connected Oct. 29, with aged cargo piling up and preventing arriving ships from getting unloaded arsenic rapidly arsenic possible.
While the interest argumentation is acceptable owed to expire astatine the extremity of January, some commissions person the enactment to widen it, keeping that enactment disposable if needed.
Under the impermanent interest policy, if it goes into effect, water carriers would beryllium charged for each import instrumentality that fell wrong 2 categories: Ocean carriers would beryllium charged $100 for each instrumentality acceptable to permission via motortruck that sits astatine a terminal 9 days oregon more, and each instrumentality acceptable to determination by obstruction that remains astatine slightest six days.
Charges would summation by $100 each day, per container, until the boxes permission the terminals.
Fees collected from dwelling cargo would beryllium reinvested for programs designed to heighten efficiency, accelerate cargo velocity and code congestion impacts.
The argumentation was developed successful coordination with the Biden-Harris Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force, U.S. Department of Transportation and aggregate proviso concatenation stakeholders.
Before the pandemic-induced cargo surge began successful mid-2020, containers for section transportation by motortruck would beryllium little than 4 days. Boxes bound for obstruction usually sat less than 2 days.
The interest was initially acceptable to spell into effect connected Nov. 1, but was delayed until Nov. 15. When that time came, the ports delayed the interest erstwhile again — and person done truthful each week since then.
Taken together, Monday’s announcement was the seventh clip the ports person delayed implementing the fee.
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