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The sea freight will rise again? The two major ports will charge surcharge, and it will be fined

  • Author:BESSON
  • Release Date:2021-10-29
The US supply chain crisis is still continuing, more than 100 ships queue in the largest Los Angeles Port and the second largest Long Beach, more than 200,000 containers "drift" on the coastline; the third largest port Savanna is filled with container The goods in the warehouse are stacked to the ceiling ...



According to shipping professional media American Shipper, there are currently about 2000 empty boxes from Charleston, Savannah, and Houston, etc. to Los Angeles.

Over the past few weeks, the Los Angeles police have opened more than 400 tickets for punishment, but they did not reverse this trend. Los Angeles is forced to relax the container code setting, from the original only allowed two container stacks to allow 4 containers to be stacked, and even 5 containers are stacked even in the case of safety conditions.

In order to alleviate the ship's backlog of shipping, the Rosetan Port and Long Beach Port is divided into the goods, the Los Angeles Port and the Long Beach Port has announced a plan, and it has begun to charge the shipping cost of the imported container by day, which is Coordinated with the Biden Supply Chain Interrupt Working Group, the US Transport Department and multiple supply chain stakeholders.

According to the new policy, the port will charge the container of one of the following two categories to the shipping company; the container of the truck is transported and container transported by railway.



For trucks transportable containers, the container for 9 days or more is charged.

For the container of the railway transport, it will charge a container for 3 days or more.

The residence time is usually referring to the unloading the container from the boat to take away the container.



Since November 1st, shipping will pay for containers that meet these two conditions, standards for $ 100 / box, and add $ 100 per container every day.

Port Los Angeles Port and Long Beach Port indicate that the costs charged from retention goods will be used by two ports to re-invest, intending to improve efficiency, speeding up the flow rate and solve the entire Saint Pedro Bay.