FMC urges carriers to adopt detention and demurrage best practices
Ocean carriers should rapidly adopt three common best practices related to detention and demurrage according to the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), which hopes they will promote clarity and certainty about how and when fees will be assessed as well as how to challenge disputed charges.
The call for an industry-wide adoption of best practices came in a letter FMC managing director Lucille Marvin sent to 25 container lines and the World Shipping Council, the trade association that represents liner shipping companies.
The correspondence sent out urges ocean carriers to display detention and demurrage charges clearly and prominently on their webpage or customer portal.
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