THE Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are ending the Container Dwell Fee that they never implemented, reports Ventura, California's gCaptain.
The fee was announced on October 25 to combat the backlog of containers that built up at the Los Angeles and Long Beach terminals.
Under the temporary policy, ocean carriers could be charged a compounding daily fee for each import container dwelling nine days or more at marine terminals.
However, fee implementation was postponed by both ports since the programme's start, and no money was ever collected.
The executive directors of both ports were given the authority to implement the fee at any time.
Since the programme was announced, the two ports saw a decline of 92 per cent in aging cargo on the docks.
'This fee was conceived as an incentive to ease congestion, keeping imported goods flowing to stores across America,' said Port of Long Beach executive director Mario Cordero.
'Measured by this standard, we can all appreciate the policy's success, and best of all, the fee was never implemented. We thank cargo owners and terminal operators for working with us to make operations more efficient, and of course, dockworkers for their dedicated labour.'
Said Port of Los Angeles executive director Gene Seroka: 'I said when we launched this programme that I hoped we would never collect a dime because that would mean that containers were moving off our docks. And that's exactly what occurred.'
'I'm grateful to the cargo owners and all our waterfront workers for all their successful efforts to improve the efficiency of our operations.'
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The fee was announced on October 25 to combat the backlog of containers that built up at the Los Angeles and Long Beach terminals.
Under the temporary policy, ocean carriers could be charged a compounding daily fee for each import container dwelling nine days or more at marine terminals.
However, fee implementation was postponed by both ports since the programme's start, and no money was ever collected.
The executive directors of both ports were given the authority to implement the fee at any time.
Since the programme was announced, the two ports saw a decline of 92 per cent in aging cargo on the docks.
'This fee was conceived as an incentive to ease congestion, keeping imported goods flowing to stores across America,' said Port of Long Beach executive director Mario Cordero.
'Measured by this standard, we can all appreciate the policy's success, and best of all, the fee was never implemented. We thank cargo owners and terminal operators for working with us to make operations more efficient, and of course, dockworkers for their dedicated labour.'
Said Port of Los Angeles executive director Gene Seroka: 'I said when we launched this programme that I hoped we would never collect a dime because that would mean that containers were moving off our docks. And that's exactly what occurred.'
'I'm grateful to the cargo owners and all our waterfront workers for all their successful efforts to improve the efficiency of our operations.'
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