Something feels amiss in the long term business relationship ship liners are trying to foster at the moment.
> The real issue, Schrap says, is just that the shipping companies won’t take their empty containers back: “The ocean carriers need to come sweep out the empties.” Adding insult to injury, the ocean carriers bill truckers a late fee every day for unreturned empty containers, Schrap said, even if they won’t accept them at the port. “It makes you want to pick up your laptop and Frisbee it out into the backyard,” Schrap said. “That’s the frustration running through our veins.”
This is a financial bazooka aimed at small importers/exporters. Forget the empties stacking up as an eye sore, this is the crisis -- charging late fees on something the ship liners won't take back.