On Friday, the L.A. Harbor Commission voted unanimously to put pressure on carriers to speed up the pace moving containers off the docks, making room to offload ships.
“In the case of containers scheduled to move by truck, ocean carriers will be charged for every container dwelling nine days or more,” the Port of L.A. said in a statement. “For containers moving by rail, ocean carriers will be charged if a container has dwelled for six days or more.
“The Port will charge ocean carriers in these two categories $100 per container, increasing in $100 increments per container per day until the container leaves the terminal.”
Ramon Ponce de Leon, longshoreman and president of ILWU Local 13, says prior to COVID, longshoreman at the ports of L.A. and Long Beach were moving 1.2 million containers a month.
Today, Ponce de Leon says with manpower working around the clock, they’re moving nearly 2 million containers per month.
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