The Shipping Company Charges The "Value-Added Fee" For The US Canada Line, With 4000 US Dollars For Small Cabinets And 5000 US Dollars For Large Ones; FMC Intervention Audit

Under the global new pneumonia epidemic situation, it has become normal for shipping that one box is hard to get, the freight is soaring, the shipping schedule is delayed and the wharf is congested. With the arrival of the peak season and the continuous congestion of the world's major ports, major shipping companies began to levy congestion congestion congestion charges and various additional value-added surcharges after August.
Herbert: VAT will be levied on August 15
Herbert, the world's fifth largest container liner company and German shipping giant, announced recently that it would impose value added charge (VAD) on China's goods exported to the United States and Canada. The surcharge will take effect on August 15, 2021 and will be collected at destinations in the United States and Canada. The range is $4000 for all 20 foot cabinets and $5000 for 40 foot cabinets.
As for the value-added fee of the "innovation" charging project, the official reason given by Herbert is "due to the sustained and unexpected strong export demand from China, as well as the operational challenges brought by this to the global supply chain"!
MSc: from September 1, congestion charges will be levied on goods exported to the United States and Canada!
Due to the impact of Canadian wildfires and railway vehicle supply, Vancouver's port terminals are overcrowded and have limited operational capacity.
With the global shipping supply chain already tight, the Vancouver Port is under pressure from a surge in container volume due to railway disruption.
On Friday, MSC issued an announcement saying: for the goods exported from the ports of South China and Hong Kong to the United States and Canada, our company will impose congestion charges, effective date: September 1, 2021 (unloading date at the port of destination).
Mason: the port congestion charge will be increased from August 5!
Meissen announced last week that starting from August 5, it will increase the port congestion charge of US $2000 per container.
This is the third step of port congestion charges which began to rise on June 10. After three times of congestion charges, the 45 foot container is as high as $5697!
Yixing: from August 1, congestion charge and delivery fee will be charged at the destination port!
Recently, the star shipping company also issued a notice that due to congestion in the United States, terminal congestion charges and delivery charges will be imposed, effective from August 1.
In addition, Herbert container also announced that it would increase the shipping rates for 20 'and 40' general purpose containers, including high cube containers, from the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, Pakistan to northern Europe and the Mediterranean.
For these unreasonable "exorbitant taxes and levies", there have been institutions involved in the audit
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) on Tuesday told the nine largest container shipping companies operating in the United States that, under pressure from shippers, Congress and the White House, the agency will immediately start auditing how they charge customers detention and demurrage, as well as unreasonable storage charges associated with persistent port congestion.
FMC's audit objects are the container companies with the largest share of the US freight market, including Maersk, mediterranean shipping, COSCO Shipping, Dafei, EVA, Herbert, one (Ocean network express), HMM and Yangming shipping. The top ten shipping companies are only spared by stars.
At a house committee hearing on June 6, FMC chairman Daniel Maffei and another member, Rebecca dye, said they wanted to audit the demurrage and demurrage bills of shipping companies.
Shippers argue that they have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars when traffic jams prevent them from picking up imported goods and returning container equipment. The so-called unreasonable demurrage charges and demurrage charges have caused shippers' dissatisfaction for a long time, so that the national industrial transportation Union (nitl) and the agricultural transportation Union (AGTC) have proposed to amend the legislation to transfer the legal burden of proof of demurrage and demurrage from the shipper to the carrier.
However, to solve the problem of unreasonable charges, we should not only expect to limit the price, but also solve the problems of port congestion and container shortage, among which the port infrastructure is an urgent and necessary problem. The bottleneck problem in the supply chain can only be solved by restoring the demand for normalization and solving the operational challenges related to the epidemic.