Properly managing your organization’s supply chain is crucial for getting products and materials to the right place at the right time. And while many issues could interfere with your supply chain ...

1. Importers, exporters, intermediaries, and truckers should not be penalized by demurrage and detention practices when circumstances are such that they cannot retrieve containers from, or return ...

With the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) preparing to strike on October 1, 2024, a key concern of impacted shippers is how to minimize demurrage charges for inbound containers that may ...

Two years of logistics logjams have burdened ocean shippers with costly increases in demurrage, detention and storage fees. These are extra costs levied on top of often-punishing freight rates, ...

The Federal Maritime Commission met in both open and closed session today to be briefed on efforts to address detention and demurrage, improve supply chain data transparency, and an ongoing ...

Tradlinx launches real-time demurrage and detention monitoring to prevent free-time overages, cut logistics costs, and boost operational efficiency.

New rules issued by Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) clarify and simplify the process by which shippers are billed for detention and demurrage charges, relieving motor carriers who do not contract ...

The government of Pakistan reportedly is working with shipping lines and their customers to ensure that shippers are not snared with demurrage charges caused by container clearance problems at ports ...

Ben Ames has spent 30 years as a journalist since starting out as a reporter for daily newspapers in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. He has focused on business and technology reporting since 1999 for ...

On April 28, 2020, the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) released the long-awaited interpretive rules in Docket No. 19-05 relating to how ocean common carriers may lawfully apply demurrage and ...

Kenya’s biggest shipping line has suspended increased container demurrage rates to allow for consultations with clearing and forwarding agents. The development has come as a big relief to clearing and ...