The proposals hope to enforce the carriage of trade and excessive penalties U.S. importers are being charged by foreign carriers.
Ag letter is the latest in a series of urgent pleas to stop the denial of trade and increased demurrage costs.
Ocean carrier Maersk says it is “working closely with the Agriculture Transportation Coalition and local trucking associations to address their concerns of equipment availability and detention and demurrage issues.”
The Agriculture Transportation Coalition is grateful to the Federal Maritime Commission for its support of American shippers.
The Agriculture Transportation Coalition, together with TradeLanes, surveys hundreds of American shippers about the cost to their bottom lines of uncommunicated earliest return dates from ocean carriers.
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission wants to learn the extent of allegations that ocean carriers are targeting noncontracted service providers for freight payment.
The inability of ocean carriers to timely inform shippers of schedule changes results in costly logistics disruptions and potential for lost international sales.
For years, exporters and importers have been frustrated by the former U.S. Customs and Border Protection process to withhold their names and addresses in manifest data from the public.
Leasing companies say a neutral chassis pool lacks incentive to invest the tens of millions of dollars each year to maintain viable chassis equipment.
Quick action sets the bar for terminal operators across the country, says Agriculture Transportation Coalition chief
