FMC to Expand the Scope of its Fact Finding Mission into Container Movement

The Federal Maritime Commission is extending the extent of its reality discovering mission identified with framework challenges originating from the Covid pandemic to include ocean transporter confinement and demurrage, holder return and compartment accessibility for U.S. export, the organization declared Friday.

The move comes after discussions the agency had with stakeholders who communicated worries about the development of compartments through port offices and practices that were prompting "unprecedented negative impact on congestion and amplifying bottlenecks at these ports and other points in the Nation’s supply chain," according to the order.

Growing import volumes have added to the clog and bottlenecks Dye highlighted in the request. Southern California warehouses are nearing their capacity, and some businesses are using the containers as low-cost storage.