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FIATA invites shipping companies to exercise a sense of measure in charging extra demurrage and detention costs
The federation urges carriers to take into account the unprecedented difficulties caused by the pandemic emergency
April 3, 2020
The federation then invited shipping companies and other players in the transport chain to refer to the "principle incentive principle - has explained the FIATA - which is a term used by the Federal Marine Council (FMC) as an approach interpretive in the application practices of extra costs containers on terminal forecourts and container use.
The federation recalled that as early as last November chairman of the Maritime Transport Working Group FIATA, Jens Roemer, had pointed out that "the watch for calculate the period of time beyond which to charge expenses for demurrage and for detention must be stopped when you circumstances that do not fall under the control importer and when containers cannot be moved. There is no logic, Roemer noted. impose a burden that should incentivise the importer to take delivery or return a container in a timely manner if port or terminal are not able to allow it."
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