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By Mike Wackett
No party in the sea freight supply chain wants to incur additional charges on a shipment caused by factors “outside of their control”, somebody has to pay: but who should it be?
Online booking platform iContainers has entered the fray in the debate about quay rent and demurrage and detention (D&D) charges levied by container lines to shippers, questioning the justification and saying that carrier “transparency is definitely lacking”.
The US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has launched an investigation into port demurrage, detention ...
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Gary Ferrulli
April 23, 2018 at 5:00 pmThere are circumstances beyond someones control but still an accountability. The Customs inspection is a no-brainer, the cargo belongs to the shipper and Customs for whatever reason decides to inspect. It is the shippers accountability.
On other beyond controls – the terminal is jammed and the trucker can’t pick up or deliver, that’s a tougher one. Usually the carrier will mitigate.
On detention, due to weather etc., it’s a question of who’s dime is it on? If the shipper is controlling the move and something happens – it is the shippers accountability. If it is a through intermodal move on the carriers bill of lading, it the carriers accountability. The issues aren’t that complex but the parties make it complex through “commercial decisions”, making exceptions here, but not there.
Inconsistency and not placing the accountability on the party accountable at all times is the issue. Can the FMC fix that? Service contracts were made to take the FMC out of the equation, put it into contract law. Not everything moves under contracts to there is where the problem begins.
Amar Rao
August 01, 2018 at 3:30 amPlease this is very very urgent , All shipping line has given substantial waivers , By not responding or not giving waivers will make things worse for every one , Consignee has no capacity to give this kind of humongous amount of detention charges , If consignee is not able to pay cargo will be abandoned and no Shipping line can clear this cargo.
This is serious issue, Please on urgent basis reply.
Thanks
Container detail is below:
Ref: Container No: OOCU6437513-40, consist 128 unit of old and used
MFD machines of M/s Amar Enterprises,Navi Mumbai.