Shipping still in the dark on US port fee details that have yet to be finalised
- More revisions expected be made to the USTR plan for port fees announced on April 17
- Timeline calls for fees to begin on October 14, which will likely prompt some ship operators to redeploy tonnage before final details are announced by USTR
- Shipping industry still has a long list of unanswered questions on specifics of how the port fee plan will be implemented
Chamber of Shipping of America president Kathy Metcalf speculated that the US Trade Representative thought port fees would be ‘fairly simple’, but ‘realised they opened up a can of worms’