PHILADELPHIA : The US Federal Maritime Fee (FMC) determined to concern a Supplemental Discover of Proposed Rulemaking (SNPRM) that addresses points commenters raised in response to the unreasonable refusal to deal or negotiate with respect to vessel house lodging proposed (Docket 22-24) rule issued final September.
In truth, the Fee has acquired greater than 200 cost complaints because the Ocean Delivery Reform Act of 2022 (OSRA) was enacted in June 2022. Additionally, greater than 70 of these complaints met the FMC’s threshold necessities to be referred to investigators.
The announcement got here throughout a Fee assembly held on 25 January, in Washington, US, the place the implementation of the Ocean Delivery Reform Act of 2022 and a briefing on financial and business developments have been mentioned in an open session.
As well as, fee employees reported that the cost grievance course of is proving profitable at selling casual settlements in addition to waivers of demurrage and detention billings. Specifically, it’s estimated that greater than US$700,000 in expenses have been refunded by carriers since June, in keeping with FMC.
Commissioners have been additionally suggested on the similar assembly that each container volumes and freight charges on US inbound trades have returned to basically pre-pandemic ranges and that the price to ship exports from the US stays barely elevated.
The fee acquired virtually 30 feedback in response to its discover of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on Unreasonable Refusal to Deal or Negotiate. The just about 30 feedback raised a mess of substantive questions that demand acceptable time and additional alternative for feedback to be given thorough consideration.
Thus, FMC expects that SNPRM will deal with these issues and supply the Fee with the chance to obtain extra public feedback.
