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The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have once again decided to postpone their claim to dwell fees on containers idling for too long at the terminals.
The dwell fee at the two US west coast ports has been postponed until Dec. 13 for now. The ports warned on Oct. 25 that they would implement the fee in order to mitigate the severe bottlenecks that are creating extensive delays.
Since the fee was announced on Oct. 25, the twin ports have seen a combined decline of 37% in aging cargo on the docks. The executive directors of both ports will reassess fee implementation after another week of monitoring data.
The ports plan to charge ocean carriers in these two categories $100 per container, increasing in $100 increments per container per day until the container leaves the terminal.
