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CLEAN PORTS PROGRAM * USA - LA/LB Programs Drive Shippers to Other Ports
PortCheck, PierPass compliance seen as cumbersome
LA/LB,CAL,USA -The Journal of Commerce, by Bill Mongelluzzo -Apr 22, 2009: -- Complying with the PortCheck and PierPass programs in Los Angeles-Long Beach is a cumbersome task that is motivating shippers and freight intermediaries to look to other gateways for their discretionary cargo... While most transportation companies support the goal of the ports' clean truck program, which is to expeditiously retire old, polluting trucks from the harbor, complying with the PortCheck mechanism is costly and burdensome for cargo interests... Lisa Waller, vice president-import at BDG International in Chicago, told at the annual conference of the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America that dozens of her containers are drayed from the harbor to rail transfer yards by trucks that comply with the ports' strict emission standards... Nevertheless, Waller has to "claim" the shipments via PortCheck and pay a $35 per-TEU fee. However, since clean trucks are used, PortCheck refunds the payment about 30 days later... Waller said the process costs her company thousands of dollars in employee wages, wasted time and reduced cash flow, all because PortCheck is not equipped to simply waive the fee for intermodal shipments that are trucked to a rail yard... She is so upset that she is checking out Vancouver, Canada, as an alternate gateway. Vancouver does not charge clean-truck fees, and there is no harbor maintenance fee in Canada as there is at U.S. ports. "We can save $85 a container," Waller said... (Photo: logisticscareers - The Port of Long Beach )Labels: clean ports
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