News / Red tape sees smaller US shippers lose out on D&D disputes

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Thousands of ‘little guy’ shippers lost out to “unfair” D&D charges in the US during Covid, as the FMC cannot help if they were levied before OSRA implementation in June 2022. 

Forwarder and founder of agency FourOneOne Sara Dandan expressed her frustrations in an interview with The Loadstar, saying: “I’ve lost count of how many people come to me for help in fighting misapplied demurrage and detention charges that barely missed the ‘deadline’.” 

She and many other shippers’ say that pre-OSRA implementation, ...