US regulators continue monitoring ocean carriers and marine terminals
A focus of the Federal Maritime Commission investigation is the practice used by some ocean carriers and marine terminal operators of adding on demurrage and detention fees for late pick-up or overdue returns of containers
‘We’re now collecting some examples and I will package those up and have a conversation with my colleagues, and if I had to say right now, I would say that I believe that we should move towards enforcement’ — Federal Maritime Commissioner Rebecca Dye