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- LA-LB ports pledge to mitigate clean truck fee impact - The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have pledged to work together to ensure that a new $10 per TEU clean-truck fee does not tempt cargo owners to divert shipments away from the largest North American container gateway, costing truckers business. The ports expect to begin levying the fee, which they call the clean truck fund rate (CTF Rate), by the end of 2020. According to port staff, the CTF Rate is expected to ...Continue reading

A proposed fee meant to subsidize the purchase of clean trucks in the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach could cause further cargo diversion from gateways, according to the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association (PMSA), which says a study on the economic viability of the fee requires significantly more analysis before it is implemented by the ports. PMSA, which represents West Coast shipping lines and terminal operators in legislative matters, filed comments last week on the ...Continue reading