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Some container lines offer shippers storage to avoid demurrage
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CONTAINER lines are offering shippers options to reduce demurrage by allowing them to store containers at their properties, reports IHS Media.
Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) has announced a "Suspension of Transit"(SOT) programme at six transit hubs in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. The service offering is aimed at shippers in need of immediate container storage space.
"The programme builds on MSC's ongoing efforts to ensure business continuity and the maintenance of vital container storage services, such as the movement of food, fresh produce, medical equipment, and other essential goods," the company said.
The SOT programme provides potential cost savings for customers faced with high warehousing storage costs at destination, including demurrage, per diem, and other charges, MSC said.
Similar offerings by other carriers and terminal operators to share unused storage space reflects the new reality of Western importers increasingly cancelling, reducing, and delaying shipments as consumer demand falls in the face of coronavirus lockdown and quarantine measures.
APL will truck US import containers from the container yards of rail facilities to its storage yard, resulting in a cargo owner saving money by avoiding the costlier rail fees. Maersk is discussing with cargo owners options to move containers or transload into 53-foot containers.
At the Fenix Marine Services terminal in Los Angeles, where APL and CMA CGM vessels call, there is an adjacent 40-acre lot available for both empties and loaded containers for short or long-term storage.
Fenix CEO Sean Pierce has offered to make the property available to other carriers and terminals. Although he has received some inquiries, other lines have not sent any containers there as of now, he said.
Hapag-Lloyd has been receiving more requests from US importers asking if there's capacity at the terminals to store containers longer and get more free time, and whether it's possible to store them off the terminal.
Uffe Ostergaard, Hapag-Lloyd's president, North America, said the carrier is working with customers to allow them to buy extra storage time up front and move containers off the terminal when possible.
Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) has announced a "Suspension of Transit"(SOT) programme at six transit hubs in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. The service offering is aimed at shippers in need of immediate container storage space.
"The programme builds on MSC's ongoing efforts to ensure business continuity and the maintenance of vital container storage services, such as the movement of food, fresh produce, medical equipment, and other essential goods," the company said.
The SOT programme provides potential cost savings for customers faced with high warehousing storage costs at destination, including demurrage, per diem, and other charges, MSC said.
Similar offerings by other carriers and terminal operators to share unused storage space reflects the new reality of Western importers increasingly cancelling, reducing, and delaying shipments as consumer demand falls in the face of coronavirus lockdown and quarantine measures.
APL will truck US import containers from the container yards of rail facilities to its storage yard, resulting in a cargo owner saving money by avoiding the costlier rail fees. Maersk is discussing with cargo owners options to move containers or transload into 53-foot containers.
At the Fenix Marine Services terminal in Los Angeles, where APL and CMA CGM vessels call, there is an adjacent 40-acre lot available for both empties and loaded containers for short or long-term storage.
Fenix CEO Sean Pierce has offered to make the property available to other carriers and terminals. Although he has received some inquiries, other lines have not sent any containers there as of now, he said.
Hapag-Lloyd has been receiving more requests from US importers asking if there's capacity at the terminals to store containers longer and get more free time, and whether it's possible to store them off the terminal.
Uffe Ostergaard, Hapag-Lloyd's president, North America, said the carrier is working with customers to allow them to buy extra storage time up front and move containers off the terminal when possible.