SHIPPERS and forwarders called on the Congressional Transportation committee to direct Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) to supervise railway container storage fees, reported New York’s Journal of Commerce. In a letter, the 70-member group called on the committee to push legislation that would make rail storage charges assessed as part of through bills of lading invoiced to importers by ocean carriers, rather than railways. ‘While we do not suggest that railroads themselves would or should be...
https://www.seanews.com.tr/us-shippers-ask-congress-to-tell-fmc-to-regulate-rail-demurrage/196743/