{"id":11859,"date":"2025-03-05T15:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T15:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/new-u-s-fees-on-chinese-ships-may-drive-demand-for-canadian-intermodal-rail\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T15:14:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T15:14:33","slug":"new-u-s-fees-on-chinese-ships-may-drive-demand-for-canadian-intermodal-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/new-u-s-fees-on-chinese-ships-may-drive-demand-for-canadian-intermodal-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"New U.S. Fees on Chinese Ships May Drive Demand for Canadian Intermodal Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The Trump administration has proposed steep new fees on Chinese-built and Chinese-operated ships docking at U.S. ports, a move that could reshape North American shipping routes and deliver significant advantages to Canadian ports and railroads.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Under the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) proposal, ships constructed in China would face fees of up to $1.5 million per U.S. port call. Vessel operators with even one Chinese-built ship in their fleet could be charged $500,000 per call, while Chinese shipping companies like COSCO would incur $1 million per call for any vessel, regardless of its origin.<\/p>\n<p>These unprecedented fees aim to counter China\u2019s dominance in global shipbuilding and maritime transport but could inadvertently disrupt U.S. trade flows and supply chains.<\/p>\n<p>Industry experts predict the fees would divert substantial cargo volumes from U.S. ports to Canadian alternatives. Ryan Petersen, CEO of Flexport, noted on social media that, \u201ca lot of U.S.-bound freight will attempt to divert to Prince Rupert and Vancouver and then rail into Chicago and other points east.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more in an\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/ciffa.apms5.com\/anywhere\/m?s=ciffa&amp;m=s_123eed22-0ba7-49c9-9e1c-8d04e199dec5&amp;u=e1jq4wvfdtfm8dhg6n1k4hj45n2mad255mu36ha25n13ada35mt3jc1m6rtm8cj370uk8&amp;r2=d1u78w3k78qjyxvqewq6cwk5d5kpgx3qc5v6awtecdqpubvecnvq6bvecnvjux9decppctb5ecppyvhdcdm6jvk5edjjuwv8d5r76bbdc5wjut3jd5v6abb4cnpp2vk45nk6ywhdcdgpwrb4d5gpwbb9dtu6awkddxj62v1de9gpjv0&amp;n=6\" href=\"https:\/\/ciffa.apms5.com\/anywhere\/m?s=ciffa&amp;m=s_123eed22-0ba7-49c9-9e1c-8d04e199dec5&amp;u=e1jq4wvfdtfm8dhg6n1k4hj45n2mad255mu36ha25n13ada35mt3jc1m6rtm8cj370uk8&amp;r2=d1u78w3k78qjyxvqewq6cwk5d5kpgx3qc5v6awtecdqpubvecnvq6bvecnvjux9decppctb5ecppyvhdcdm6jvk5edjjuwv8d5r76bbdc5wjut3jd5v6abb4cnpp2vk45nk6ywhdcdgpwrb4d5gpwbb9dtu6awkddxj62v1de9gpjv0&amp;n=6\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">article from FreightWaves<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has proposed steep new fees on Chinese-built and Chinese-operated ships docking at U.S. ports, a move that could reshape North American shipping routes and deliver significant advantages to Canadian ports and railroads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":11857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1607,1608],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-11859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freight-news","tag-flexport-en","tag-ryan-petersen-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11860,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11859\/revisions\/11860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11859"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=11859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}