For the first time since last month, a Hanjin cargo vessel is arriving at the Port of Oakland, almost two weeks to the day since the South Korean shipping company declared bankruptcy.
“They’ll have to pay the cargo handling fee in order to retrieve those containers but they will have the ability to get the products they need to put on the shelves in their stores and be able to do their business with the parts that they need from those containers,” Port of Oakland’s Marilyn Sandifur asked.
Already, Hanjin containers are beginning to stack up at yards around the port.
“If you pick up a Hanjin container, you don’t know when you’re going to be able to return it. So that means you’re going to be incurring the chassis charges, the storage of the container and the charges, the penalties on the container itself,” trucker Bill Aboudi said.
These charges could be in the hundreds, even thousands of dollars for a single empty container.
