Comment / As rates rally, the FMC enforcement offensive hits critical mass...

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In a nutshell: In six months the Commission has levied over $68 million in combined awards against MSC, OOCL, and Maersk, with an Evergreen court win reinforcing its hand. The question now: is OOCL’s constitutional challenge capable of stopping the train?

For decades, disputing a detention or demurrage invoice from an ocean carrier was roughly as productive as shouting into a fog horn at slack tide. The carrier billed, the trucker or forwarder paid, and the Federal Maritime Commission ...