At present, the situation of American ports has become a hot topic in the world. Just the day before yesterday, LA/LB port announced on their official website that they would postpone the collection of "long-term storage fee" until November 22.

The official reason is that the overdue stranded containers at the two ports have decreased by 26% since the announcement of charges on October 25.

Gene seroka, director of the port of Los Angeles, said: "in recent weeks, we have made significant progress in the cleaning of imported containers at our terminal. As November 22 approaches, we will continue to closely monitor the data."

"Our supply chain partners have made good progress in helping us clean up stranded import containers," said Mario Cordero, director of Long Beach port

Policy risk

According to foreign media reports, another reason why the port did not officially start charging may be considering the risk of doing so. Because many American retail business associations have great opinions on this.

Why is there such a big opinion? Because the shipping company has indicated that it will transfer the cost to the owner or importer.

As of Monday, there were 19656 overdue containers at Long Beach port and at least 29249 containers at Los Angeles port. These containers will incur high costs.

According to statistics, the additional cost incurred on Monday alone exceeded $4.8 million. And the cost will increase every day, and the total cost is likely to rise to tens of millions of dollars.

On Friday, Rolf habben Jansen, chief executive of Herbert, warned: "if the goods in those boxes are not so valuable, many goods may eventually be discarded in the port."

Although significant progress has been made in port clearance, data show that most of the containers that incurred costs arrived at the port at the end of October and early November.

The number of containers staying at the port of Los Angeles for more than nine days increased by 18% over Saturday, the highest level since Wednesday. At Long Beach port, the number of containers charged increased by 14%, which is also higher than the previous level.

At the same time, goods continued to flow into the two ports. The average waiting time for ships arriving in Los Angeles reached 16.9 days.