Ocean Carriers Will Be Charged for Retaining Containers at Port of New York and New Jersey

Ocean Carriers Will Be Charged for Retaining Containers at Port of New York and New Jersey
FILE PHOTO: Shipping containers are unloaded from a ship at a container terminal at the Port of Long Beach-Port of Los Angeles complex, in Los Angeles, Calif., April 7, 2021. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo
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The Port of New York and New Jersey has announced that it will charge a new quarterly “container imbalance fee” from ocean carriers as part of the port’s efforts to deal with container congestion.

According to the new system, the total outgoing container volume of an ocean carrier must equal or exceed 110 percent of its incoming container volume during a specific period. Failure to hit this benchmark will result in a fee of $100 per container, the port said in an Aug. 2 press release. The largest container ships can carry roughly 24,000, 20-foot equivalent units (TEU).
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