{"id":6891,"date":"2022-07-22T14:10:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T18:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=6891"},"modified":"2022-08-12T10:25:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T14:25:04","slug":"industry-advisory-demurrage-detention-billing-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/industry-advisory-demurrage-detention-billing-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry Advisory \u2014 Demurrage & Detention Billing Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vessel-Operating Common Carriers (VOCCs) are required to comply with demurrage or detention billing practices established by the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/117\/plaws\/publ146\/PLAW-117publ146.pdf\">Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022<\/a><\/em> (PL 117-146).<\/p>\n<p>As previously <a href=\"\/industry-advisory-interim-procedures-for-submitting-charge-complaints\/\">advised to the trade, there is no phase-in<\/a> period for this provision of law. The law, and its requirements, related to demurrage and detention charges, became effective June 16, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>VOCCs must come into compliance with all self-executing provisions in the <em>Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022<\/em>, specifically the requirements for demurrage and detention billing (<a href=\"https:\/\/uscode.house.gov\/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title46-section41104&num=0&edition=prelim\">46 U.S.C. 41104(d)<\/a>). The Federal Maritime Commission will pursue enforcement action against any conduct perceived to establish open-ended obligations or include coercive tactics circumventing the clear direction of Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vessel-Operating Common Carriers (VOCCs) are required to comply with demurrage or detention billing practices established by the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (PL 117-146). As previously advised to the trade, there is no phase-in period for this provision of law. The law, and its requirements, related to demurrage and... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"\/industry-advisory-demurrage-detention-billing-practices\/\">Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[48],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6895,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891\/revisions\/6895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}