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CLEAN TRUCKS * USA - LA/Long Beach to Drop Fee Shuffle for
Inefficient payment, reimbursement scheme falls to shipper complaints
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -The Journal of Commerce, by Bill Mongelluzzo -Sep 11, 2009: -- The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles intend soon to eliminate a reporting requirement that cargo interests said was an unnecessary and costly administrative burden associated with the ports' clean-truck program... If the harbor commissions approve the measure, importers and exporters whose containers are moved by clean trucks will no longer have to "claim" the shipments under the PortCheck program established by marine terminal operators at the two ports... At present, all importers and exporters must claim their shipments and pay a $35 per-TEU fee under the ports' clean-truck program. PortCheck, which manages the program on behalf of the ports and terminal operators, then refunds the fee to those shippers whose containers are pulled by compliant trucks... Cargo interests complained vociferously to the ports that as a result of this reporting requirement they took on the administrative cost of assigning staff specifically to report a shipment and pay a fee that was later refunded to them... The ports hope to implement the new policy on claiming containers by Nov. 1... Labels: Clean Trucks Program
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