News / Samsung lodges biggest complaint yet: for 96,000 'erroneous' D&D charges

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Samsung’s US subsidiary has lodged what may be the largest complaint yet with the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), claiming HMM imposed some 96,000 “erroneous” detention & demurrage (D&D) charges.

The complaint follows Samsung Electronics America (SEA) proceedings against Cosco, OOCL, SM Line and Zim, and while the financial claim has yet to be made public, it could easily hit the tens of millions.

SEA’s filing claims: “Beginning approximately mid-2020, HMM began repeatedly and chronically failing to ...