FMC Dismisses Most of Shipper’s Complaint Against Carrier Yang Ming
A Federal Maritime Commission administrative law judge ordered Taiwan-based ocean carrier Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp. March 24 to pay $517.50 of the approximately $1.3 million that shipper Supply Source sought for what it said were unfair demurrage and detention fees charged in 2021 and 2022.
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Of the 626 container shipments involved in the case, the FMC lacks jurisdiction over 381 of them because there is insufficient evidence the containers were shipped from a foreign port to a U.S. port, the judge said. Of the remaining 245 containers, Supply Source could prove only that unjust demurrage fees were charged for two of them, the judge wrote.
Two Supply Source subsidiaries filed the complaint against Yang Ming in February 2024 (see 2402150055), and TZ SSE Buyer later purchased Supply Source’s assets from bankruptcy. Attorneys for TZ SSE Buyer and Yang Ming didn't respond to requests for comment on the judge’s decision.