Posted on Nov 11, 2021
Ports Of L.A. And Long Beach Plan To Impose Fines On Shipping Companies To Get Goods Moving
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Shipping containers have been piling up for months at the ports because of a worker shortage: there’s no one to unload the containers and no truck drivers or train engineers to bring the goods inland to be distributed.
So port officials went to the next best thing, money.
...officials at the ports voted in late October to impose a new fee on containers that sit around for more than six days if intended for rail transport or nine days if intended for trucks. Starting Nov. 15, the ocean carrier companies that brought those idling containers in will be charged $100 on the first day past deadline, $200 on the next, and so on — an escalating fine that could quickly grow into the tens of millions of dollars a day for the thousands of containers on the docks.
Shipping containers have been piling up for months at the ports because of a worker shortage: there’s no one to unload the containers and no truck drivers or train engineers to bring the goods inland to be distributed.
So port officials went to the next best thing, money.
...officials at the ports voted in late October to impose a new fee on containers that sit around for more than six days if intended for rail transport or nine days if intended for trucks. Starting Nov. 15, the ocean carrier companies that brought those idling containers in will be charged $100 on the first day past deadline, $200 on the next, and so on — an escalating fine that could quickly grow into the tens of millions of dollars a day for the thousands of containers on the docks.
Ports Of L.A. And Long Beach Plan To Impose Fines On Shipping Companies To Get Goods Moving
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PO1 John Johnson
Stan, there is no such thing as a worker shortage when it comes to the "Ports", which are manned by and ships are loaded/unloaded and the contents moved by the ILWU and those guys are extremely well paid and have benefits you can only dream about. The backlogs are coming from State Mandates that limit the amount of time a "Port" and Personnel can operate. I'm still trying to figure out where all the truckers went; it's mind blowing. We've lost approx. 775k folks due to Covid; were they all truck drivers and train Engineers?
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MSG Stan Hutchison
PO1 John Johnson - I was generalizing. A warehouse worker up here starts at $12 an hour. Most jobs in this area are around that, plus only 30 hours a week, so no bennies.
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Thanks for the report. How is it the shipping companies fault? They have no control on our domestic problems with worker and driver shortages. When it goes to court, I'm sure it will, I want to see the result.
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I’m guessing it’s forcing the shipping companies to abandon “not on my boat not my problem” thinking. I’m sure there is lots of contractual garbage involved in the ship-port-transit connection but this is probably forcing the shippers to link up with the haulers and make the process more efficient.
Regardless, further down the article it says the backlog has noticeably improved since they implemented this policy.
Regardless, further down the article it says the backlog has noticeably improved since they implemented this policy.
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SFC Thomas Foreman - There are a few truckers that would gladly haul the loads, if the Port would let them in for the pickups.
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SGT (Join to see) yeah I read another article somewhere that truckers have to arrive by appointment, which makes sense in normal times to prevent logjams but we’re past that point.
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