{"id":6878,"date":"2023-04-10T17:57:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T17:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/msc-could-face-u-s-fmc-civil-penalty-over-tariffs-congestion-surcharge\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T17:38:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T17:38:35","slug":"msc-could-face-u-s-fmc-civil-penalty-over-tariffs-congestion-surcharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/msc-could-face-u-s-fmc-civil-penalty-over-tariffs-congestion-surcharge\/","title":{"rendered":"MSC Could Face U.S. FMC Civil Penalty over Tariff’s Congestion Surcharge"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission is continuing to move aggressively against what it sees as unreasonable charges and business practices of the major carriers. In a filing dated last week, the Office of Enforcement is recommending that the commission review the tariffs of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) for a possible civil penalty related to its insistence on continuing to maintain an \u201cambiguous surcharge\u201d in its tariff for congestion.<\/p>\n

The effort seeking to impose a civil penalty comes from what appeared to be an innocuous case over a $1,000 congestion fee issued by MSC to a shipper. The carrier recently refunded the charge, but the FMC\u2019s Office of Enforcement found that the carrier continues to have the questionable clause within its tariff, which it sees as a possible violation of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022.<\/p>\n

Read more in an article from The Maritime Executive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission is continuing to move aggressively against what it sees as unreasonable charges and business practices of the major carriers. In a filing dated last week, the Office of Enforcement is recommending that the commission review the tariffs of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) for a possible civil penalty related to its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":3356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[764,566],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-6878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freight-news","tag-fmc-en","tag-u-s-federal-maritime-commission-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878","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=6878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6879,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878\/revisions\/6879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6878"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=6878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}