August 7, 2009

The Ports of Los Angeles-Long Beach have postponed a $15 per TEU infrastructure fee indefinitely, and may even consider dropping the $35 per TEU 'clean trucks' fee two or three years sooner than planned if harbor truckers continue to introduce newer equipment to their fleets, according to a report in the Journal of Commerce.

The infrastructure fee was rolled out last year, but has been delayed twice, most recently until summer 2010, because the pace of expansion projects at the ports has slowed considerably.

The deputy executive director at the Port of Los Angeles explained that the infrastructure fee might be required eventually, although port executives believed it was counterproductive to keep setting deadlines for the fee and then canceling them.