The Port Authorities of Los Angeles and Long Beach had effective the 25th of October provided it’s notice of intention to start billing a “Container Excess Dwell Fee” commencing the 1st of November. The fee would’ve gone into effect if the ports not see a material improvement in the clearance of long dwelling containers at the terminals.
This advisory serves as a notification to inform customers of the decision by the Port Authority to further delay the introduction of the fee by an additional week until the 13th of December. Since the fee was announced on the 25th of October, they continue to see continued progress on the combined ageing of cargo on their docks. While this is an improvement, we ask that all parties to continue to actively arrange transport of aging cargo off terminal.
The pickup of aging cargo in Long Angeles and Long Beach should be the priority as work is done to decongest the marine terminals and with that allow vessels to discharge freight.
