Shippers to be fined for leaving cargo at LA ports – By Tori Richards (Washington Examiner) / Oct 26 2021
The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles will begin charging shipping carriers a surcharge to store their containers in an effort to clear a backlog that threatens to derail the entire supply chain.
For the past 20 years, the Los Angeles area has been the busiest shipping port in the Western Hemisphere. Thousands of empty cargo containers have overwhelmed the ports and surrounding cities as a glut of ships drop off their goods without taking anything back with them. Truckers say they wait hours, if not days, to receive loads and are prohibited from bringing back empty containers because there is no room to store them.
“We must expedite the movement of cargo through the ports to work down the number of ships at anchor,” Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka said in a statement . “If we can clear this idling cargo, we’ll have much more space on our terminals to accept empties, handle exports, and improve fluidity for the wide range of cargo owners who utilize our ports.”
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