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Aug 3, 2009

CARGO FEE * USA - Ports may put end to

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are now considering whether to scrap a cargo fee

Los Angeles,CAL,USA -The Daily Breeze, by Art Marroquin -1 Aug 2009: -- After a series of delays, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are now considering whether to scrap a cargo fee that was supposed to generate $1.4 billion for bridge, railway and road improvements... The infrastructure fee was adopted by the twin ports in January 2008, but it was never collected because of the national recession and the fact that no specific construction projects were ever approved... The proposal had initially called for placing a $15 fee on all loaded 20-foot cargo containers entering or leaving the ports by truck or train beginning Jan. 1... Just weeks before the fee was scheduled to kick in, the twin ports delayed implementation until July 1 and slashed the fee to $6 for loaded 20-foot cargo containers... Earlier this year, that date was delayed - again - to July 1, 2010, with a new fee amount that still needs to be calculated... In the meantime, staffers from both ports are studying whether to completely take the fee off the books, said Kathryn McDermott, deputy executive director of business development at the Port of Los Angeles. A report is expected in the coming months... (Photo: NOI/NOP for Berths 302-306 -APL- Container Terminal Project)

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Jul 17, 2008

FEES * USA - California port fee would fight pollution, congestion

Legislators vote for a $60 charge on shipping containers going through Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland. The measure would raise at least $400 million annually

Sacramento,CAL,USA -Los Angeles Times, by Nancy Vogel -July 16, 2008: -- Saying California children shouldn't breathe soot so people across the country can buy cheap televisions, legislators voted Tuesday to impose a fee on every container moving through the ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles and Oakland... The money -- at least $400 million a year -- would be used to ease the traffic congestion and air pollution generated by the ports, which handle more than 40% of the nation's goods... SB 974 would impose on shippers a fee of $60 for every typical-size cargo container leaving or entering the ports. The money would be used across Southern California and in the Bay Area for such projects as installing cleaner-burning truck and train engines and building roadways under or over railroad tracks to avoid long lines of idling vehicles...

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Mar 14, 2008

Container Fees * USA - Retail Group Urges Port of Oakland To Reject Ones

Washington,DC,USA -Import Industry News, by USA Custom House Guide -March 13, 2008: -- On Tuesday, the National Retail Federation urged the Port of Oakland to reject a proposal to impose new container fees similar to those approved recently in Los Angeles and Long Beach, and instead adopt a plan to ease air pollution and congestion that is supported by shippers... Oakland is reportedly considering a plan similar to one recently adopted by the Los Angeles and Long Beach Boards of Port Commissioners that would impose new fees intended to pay for road, bridge, and rail infrastructure improvements and diesel truck replacements as part of a plan to ease traffic congestion and air pollution around the ports... The LA/Long Beach plan includes a $30 fee for each 40-foot container moving into or out of the ports earmarked for infrastructure and another $70 per container fee intended to help fund the purchase of new, lower-emission trucks... The NRF-backed alternate calls for statewide emissions standards, would create a fund to help pay for truck replacement, and would create a public-private partnership to pay for infrastructure improvements. Independent truckers would not be banned...

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Jan 11, 2008

Fees* USA - Harbor commissions consider container fee

Fee would help pay to replace two bridges and fund air quality projects

Long Beach,CA,USA -The Long Beach Press-Telegram, by Art Marroquin -10 Jan 2008: -- The Los Angeles and Long Beach harbor commissions are scheduled Monday to consider a fee that's expected to raise $1.4 billion for bridge, railway and road improvements at the twin port complex... The proposal calls for placing a $15 charge on all loaded 20-foot cargo containers entering or leaving the ports by truck or train beginning Jan. 1, 2009, port officials announced Thursday... The proposed infrastructure fee comes on the heels of another fee approved last month by the Los Angeles and Long Beach harbor commissions, which calls for raising $1.6 billion over the next five years to replace or retrofit diesel-spewing big rigs with cleaner-burning trucks... The Clean Trucks Program fee calls for placing a $35 fee on all loaded 20-foot containers entering or leaving the ports on short-haul drayage trucks beginning June 1... The new port fees join an existing fee of $100 on every 40-foot container adopted in 2005 to reduce road congestion...

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Jul 24, 2007

Overweight Fees * USA - A revenue grab in Houston, truckers say

Trucking company representatives and owner-operators are planning to speak out against a proposed ordinance in Houston to require overweight or oversized trucks to pay for city permits in addition to existing state fees

Houston,TX,USA -Land Line Magazine, by David Tanner -20 July 2007: -- ... The Houston City Council is scheduled to vote on the ordinance during a meeting Aug. 1. The council will not be in session Wednesday, July 25, as previously reported... The Texas Motor Truck Association is rounding up comments from its member motor carriers to present during a public comment session beginning at 9 a.m., July 31, at Houston City Hall... The ordinance, if passed, would require a city permit for trucks larger than 65 feet long, 14 feet high and 102 inches wide, including the load, or those with more weight than the axle formula allows in interstate hauling... OOIDA member Danny Schnautz of Pasadena, TX, said the city ordinance is nothing more than a revenue grab at the expense of truck drivers...

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Apr 21, 2007

New Fees * USA - Could Help Clean Up Ports

Right now, there are no fees charged to the 32,000 trucks a day moving through the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles

Long Beach,CA,USA -Gazette Newspapers, by Kurt Helin -20 April 2007: -- ... or the cargo they carry... where the money could be used to improve port infrastructure or clean up the environment... But that could change dramatically in the next few years under proposals backed by the port’s Board of Harbor Commissioners... First, on Monday the commissioners voted to support a container fee bill working its way through the legislature in Sacramento... James Hankla, chairman of the Board of Harbor Commissioners, said of supporting the bill. “Why should we in Southern California subsidize the cost of goods movement for people in the midwest?”... The second fee would be part of a sweeping plan to replace the dirty, older trucks in the port with newer, cleaner running trucks... The problem was finding the estimated $1.8 billion to do it...

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Feb 27, 2007

A “flawed idea” * USA - ‘Ag fees’ on border blasted

Washington,DC,USA -Land Line Magazine (Grain Valley,MO) -Feb 23, 2007: -- A high-ranking American politician has joined a lot of Canadian truckers in blasting the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s plan to slap fees on inbound trucks at border crossings... In a statement, U.S. House Rules Committee chairwoman Louise Slaughter, D-New York, said the fees are a “flawed idea” and a “heavy-handed response to a narrow problem.”... On Thursday, Feb. 22, the government announced that it was delaying the implementation of the fees – which will supposedly help pay for beefed-up inspection of agricultural products – for 90 days...

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