The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has issued a new rule that prescribes fresh regulations for how common carriers and marine terminal operators (MTOs) should bill demurrage and detention charges. The…
https://gcaptain.com/fmc-issues-final-rule-on-detention-and-demurrage-billing/
FMCSA outlines new driver detention study
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Wednesday released parameters on data collection for a new study to determine the impact of detention time on drivers. The Information Collection Request (ICR) was submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval and opened the window for public comments. The request noted that approximately 80 carriers and 2,500 CMV drivers will provide data...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/loaded-and-rolling-fmcsa-outlines-new-driver-detention-study
More than $1 million in disputed charges have been waived or refunded through the Charge Complaint process, established by the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (OSRA) and administered by…
https://gcaptain.com/fmc-charge-complaint-refunds-hit-1-million-milestone/
By Ian Putzger, Americas Correspondent (The Loadstar) – While US ports and container terminals still resist a regulatory drive to curtail detention and demurrage (D&D) charges, several shipping lines have stopped…
https://gcaptain.com/ocean-carriers-backpedal-on-dd-charges-as-new-rules-loom/
By Nick Savvides (The Loadstar) – A US Federal Maritime Commission small claims officer’s (SCO) decision to uphold trucker TCW Inc’s complaint over detention and demurrage (D&D) charges by Taiwan carrier…
By Alex Longley and Sherry Su (Bloomberg) –With soaring shipping costs comes soaring bills for ships doing nothing. In the oil-tanker market, day rates for delayed vessels — think taxis waiting…
https://gcaptain.com/oil-freight-boom-makes-1-million-waiting-bills-more-common/
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission is proposing a new rule that seeks to bring more clarity, structure, and punctuality to the demurrage and detention billing practices of vessel operating common…
https://gcaptain.com/fmc-proposing-new-demurrage-and-detention-billing-requirements/
The California trucking community is celebrating the approval of a new state law that it believes will reduce detention and demurrage charges for containers that are not picked up or returned to ports in a timely manner.
Gov. Gavin Newsom last week signed Assembly Bill 2406, which prohibits intermodal equipment providers and marine terminal operators from imposing per diem detention or demurrage charges except in certain cases.
Demurrage and detention charges are levied under two circumstances....
Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) Chairman Daniel B. Maffei visited the Port of New York and New Jersey on Wednesday to meet with trucking representatives and marine terminal operators about growing…
By Barry Parker (gCaptain) – In the recently enacted Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (OSRA 2022 or “The Shipping Act,” for short), there is a great deal of attention…
https://gcaptain.com/ocean-shipping-reform-act-detention-and-demurrage-disconnects/