Emergency congestion fee at LA/LB ports
Effective today, November 1st, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will begin charging an emergency congestion fee on all long dwelling container units.
The fee will be applied to all CY/local haulage/off-dock rail containers that remain at the terminal for nine (9) days or more and on-dock rail containers that remain at the terminal for three (3) days or more.
The fee is 100 dollars per day for each container that remains on the dock for more than three days, if slated to move by rail, or nine days for truck-bound cargo. Those per-container fees will increase in 100 dollars increments for each day of additional delay.
The ports will be responsible for collecting these fees, so it is expected that this will be billed very similarly to how demurrage is billed today.
Considering all of the infrastructure challenges we are facing today (chassis shortages, slow terminal operations, lack of rail car capacity), we are expecting to have a large cost impact.
Given the short notice, we are expecting to get more details and let you know of any changes.
Join our Weekly Ship Show this week where Anthony D'Ambrosio and Jason Brand will be giving you all the details on this new emergency congestion fee. Register here.