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The US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has warned carriers and terminal operators against profiteering from unfair detention and demurrage (D&D) charges amid the disruption from an east and Gulf coast port strike.

Yesterday, the FMC published a reminder that “all statutes and regulations administered by the FMC would remain in effect” during any International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) strike-related terminal closures, threatened for 1 October.

Vespucci Maritime CEO Lars Jensen said: “Basically, this should be seen as a metaphorical ’shot across the bows’; ...

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