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Demurrage" / d ɪ ˈ m ʌ r ɪ dʒ / [1] in ... (usually the shipping carrier) to require a payment from the merchant. ... On railways, it is the charge on detention ...
Once in the port, after a short "free time" period, roll trailers are subject to demurrage charges, [4] to cover storage and detention fees [5] and to ensure consignees swiftly unload their cargo, temporary positioned on the shipping line's trailers during the sea passage.
Four shipper associations want the Surface Transportation Board to allow demurrage charges to be assessed on privately owned railcars as an incentive for freight railroads to move those railcars ...
The Hague–Visby Rules is a set of international rules for the international carriage of goods by sea.They are a slightly updated version of the original Hague Rules which were drafted in Brussels in 1924.
The law of carriage of goods by sea is a body of law that governs the rights and duties of shippers, carriers and consignees of marine cargo. [1]Primarily concerned with cargo claims, this body of law combines the international commercial law, the law of the sea and admiralty laws.
[135] [141] This led shipping lines to seek alternate ports for ships en route to Baltimore and forced shippers to attempt to arrange for land transportation from those ports before unloaded cargoes would incur detention and demurrage charges—i.e., late fees. [142]
"demurrage" means the charge levied for the detention of any rolling stock after the expiry of free time, if any, allowed for such detention; "endorsee" means the person in whose favor an endorsement is made, and in the case of successive endorsements, the person in whose favor the last endorsement is made;
The charterer is only responsible to provide the cargo at a specified port and to accept it at the destination port. Time becomes an issue in the voyage charter if the tramp ship is late in her schedule or loading or discharging are delayed. If a tramp ship is delayed the charterer pays demurrage, which is a