News / Flexport sues BCO for $12.3m of unpaid box detention charges

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Flexport has filed a $12.3m lawsuit against customer Giti Tires, claiming it refused to pay an extensive list of detention fees, leaving Flexport to pick up the bill.  

Between 2021 and 2023, Giti hired Flexport as a non-vessel-operating common carrier (NVOCC) to arrange the transport of hundreds of shipments of tyres to the port of Long Beach, California. 

As NVOCC, Flexport arranged international ocean transport for Giti’s cargo, undertook ocean carrier liability and issued bills of lading.It also arranged the drayage ...