The container imbalance fee will be assessed on ocean carriers who do not evacuate empty containers that take up sorely needed space for arriving imports and impede overall port productivity and fluidity. Under this new container management fee, which will be assessed on a quarterly basis, ocean carriers’ total outgoing container volume must equal or exceed 110 percent of their incoming container volume during the same period, or they will be assessed a fee of $100 per container for failing to hit this benchmark. Incoming and outgoing containers include both loaded and empty containers, excluding rail volume.

This new policy is pushing ocean carriers to balance empty container proactively to improve resource utilization rate.

If there is a solution that could monitor container surplus storage situation and propose empty repositioning plan to deficit ports automatically with minimum cost, extra cost could be saved and fulfill future customer’s demands for empty containers.

SAP Transportation Resource Planning is the product could provide the solution. It can not only increase transportation resource visibility and provide optimized proposals of repositioning in and out for execution.

Article Details: https://www.panynj.gov/port-authority/en/press-room/press-release-archives/2022-press-releases/port-authority-announces-new-container-imbalance-fee-to-minimize.html

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