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June 9, 2022
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- Hapag-Lloyd fined hapag-Lloyd in the USA for violating the rules on
demurrage and detention costs
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- The company will have to pay its millions of dollars to the
Department of Treasury
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 The German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd will have to
pay the US Treasury Department a fine of two million
dollars for alleged violations related to the practices of
application of demurrage costs for the storage of
containers in American ports, a figure that is the result of a
settlement agreement with the US federal agency Federal
Maritime Commission (FMC). The agreement follows a decision
of last April 22 of the judge of administrative law of the
FMC which considered that the German company violated the law
consciously and voluntarily omitting to establish, observe
and enforce regulations and practices relating to reception,
handling, storage and delivery of goods, according to the judge
unjustifiably refusing to waive the costs of
demurrage/detention.-
- "To restore full confidence in our
maritime transport - commented the president of the FMC, Daniel
Maffei - strict application of the rules is necessary
of the FMC. In particular, we must ensure that powerful vectors
Ocean carriers comply with the Shipping Act when dealing with
American importers and exporters. The case that you are
concluded today (yesterday, ed) represents only a part of one
ongoing effort to investigate any conduct in
violation of the rules of the FMC and, in particular - he specified
Mafferi - the interpretative rule on the charges of demurrage and
extraordinary expectation".
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