Urgent! Next Monday the fines come into effect, the port has 60,000 containers have exceeded the dwell time, must be shipped as soon as possible

Halloween will be a particularly scary day for the logistics community. Starting next Monday (Nov. 1), fines for overstayed containers will go into effect, with a total of 60,000 containers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach marked as overstayed and requiring carriers to ship them out of the ports or the fines will begin to accumulate. There are 33,000 containers to be shipped out of the Port of Los Angeles and 27,000 containers to be shipped out of the Port of Long Beach, with cargo valued at $2,633.94 million. As mentioned in yesterday's report, this plan announced by the Port of Long Beach in Los Angeles to charge for containers that have been stranded for an extended period of time will result in considerable costs to carriers (and most likely, eventually, to shippers): $100 per container per day after the container exceeds its dwell time, along with an additional $100 per day, then by the 30th day, the charge will be as high as $46,500 per container. Urgent! The fine goes into effect next Monday and the port has 60,000 containers that have exceeded their dwell time and must be shipped out ASAP! Chart source: American Shipper Yet is this plan driving a lot of container movement? The answer is no. Live webcams at the Port of Los Angeles terminals show more images of empty lanes than active ones, and turnaround times at the two terminals tracked by the Harbor Trucking Association and GeoStamp reflect slower container movement around the time of the announcement. Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, said, "We're going to have an emergency port meeting to vote on this, and I need to see progress on container movement, and we need to show America that we're doing everything we can to move containers." Urgent! The fines go into effect next Monday and the port has 60,000 containers that have exceeded their dwell time and must be shipped out as soon as possible! Noel Hacegaba, chief operating officer of the Port of Long Beach, stressed the importance of pushing containers to move faster to ease the congestion that plagues productivity. This (overstayed containers) represents about 40 percent of all containers currently on the dock," he said. It will take an unprecedented coordinated effort to move all of these containers by Sunday, but it has to be done." Some importers say they are concerned they will be stuck with these charges, and some have already received letters notifying them of the additional charges associated with them. Urgent! The fines go into effect next Monday and the port has 60,000 containers that have exceeded their dwell time and must be shipped out as soon as possible! "This fine is not intended to pass on costs," explained Mario Cordero, executive director of the Port of Long Beach, in a port update press release. "We are using all the tools at our disposal to move the containers." Hacegaba, chief operating officer of the Port of Long Beach, added. The American Retail Federation and the American Apparel and Footwear Association said that if these costs are passed on, it will only add to the rising inflationary logistics costs that importers have been paying.