Ports to Revisit ‘Container Dwell Fee’ on April 15

Consideration of the “Container Dwell Fee” at the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles will be delayed until April 15, port officials announced April 11.

The two San Pedro Bay ports have seen a combined decline of 49% in aging cargo on the docks since the program was announced on Oct. 25.

The executive directors of both ports will reassess fee implementation after monitoring data over the next week. Fee implementation has been postponed by both ports since the start of the program.

Under the temporary policy, ocean carriers can be charged for each import container dwelling nine days or more at the terminal. Currently, no date has been set to start the count with respect to container dwell time. As of April 12, the POLA reported the Container Dwell Fee has been postponed 22 times.