urgent! The fine will come into effect next Monday. There are 60,000 containers in the port that have exceeded their stay time and must be shipped out as soon as possible!

For the logistics industry, Halloween will be a particularly scary day. From next Monday (November 1st), the fines for overdue containers will come into effect. A total of 60,000 containers in the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have been marked as exceeding their stay time and require the carrier to transport them out of the port, otherwise the fines will be imposed. Start to accumulate.

Among them, the Port of Los Angeles has 33,000 containers to be shipped out, and the Port of Long Beach has 27,000 containers to be shipped out, with a cargo value of up to US$2.63394 million.

As mentioned in yesterday’s report, the plan announced by the Port of Long Beach in Los Angeles to charge fees for long-detained containers will bring a very high cost to the carrier (and possibly the shipper in the end): the container exceeds the stay time. After that, each container will be charged USD 100 per day, and at the same time an increase of USD 100 per day, then by the 30th day, the charge per container will be as high as USD 46,500.

However, does this plan promote the movement of a large number of containers? The answer is no.

The real-time webcam of the Port of Los Angeles terminal shows that there are more images of empty lanes than active images. The turnaround time of the two terminals tracked by the Harbor Trucking Association and GeoStamp also reflects the faster container movement before and after the announcement. slow.

Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, said: "We will hold an emergency meeting at the port to vote on this matter. I need to see progress in container shipping. We need to show the United States that we are doing everything we can to promote container movement."

Noel Hacegaba, chief operating officer of the Port of Long Beach, emphasized that promoting faster container transportation is of great significance to alleviating the congestion that plagues productivity.

He said: "This (containers overdue) accounts for about 40% of all the containers currently on the terminal. Shipment of all these containers before Sunday will require unprecedented coordinated efforts, but it must be done."

Some importers expressed that they were worried that they would be entangled in these costs, and some had received letters informing them of the additional costs.

Mario Cordero, executive director of the Port of Long Beach, explained at the port update press conference: "This fine is not to pass on costs." "We are using all the tools we can use to move containers." Long Beach Chief Operating Officer Hacegaba added.

The American Retail Federation and the American Apparel and Footwear Association said that if these costs are passed on, they will only increase the escalating logistics costs that importers have been paying for.