Bi-partisan "caucus" for ports in US Congress

The Bureau of Enforcement, Investigations, and Compliance has “prioritised investigations of possible wrongdoing by common carriers or marine terminal operators” referred by the FMC over the ILA strike period.

US Shippers did not get everything they wanted in FMC’s final rule on definitions relating to unreasonably refusing to load export cargo.

The US Federal Maritime Commission is investigating OCEMA and its members for compliance with a decision granting shippers and truckers the right to choose chassis.

The US Federal Maritime Commission secured over $2.3 million in penalties and business practice reforms from three companies through compromise agreements.

The Federal Maritime Commission seeks feedback on maritime data accuracy, focusing on container movement between service providers and importers/exporters.

Ports America and NAWE say it is “quite frankly astonishing” that the FMC would seek to limit a marine terminal operator’s ability to charge demurrage in its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.