{"id":5438,"date":"2025-02-27T20:04:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T20:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=5438"},"modified":"2025-02-27T20:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T20:04:31","slug":"u-s-port-fees-on-china-built-ships-carriers-weigh-their-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=5438","title":{"rendered":"U.S. port fees on China-built ships? Carriers weigh their options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    U.S. port fees on China-built ships? Carriers weigh their options<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The prospect of U.S. port fees being imposed on Chinese-built ships is keeping shipping analysts busy. As we reported earlier, in response to a petition filed by U.S. unions back in March 2024, then U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Ambassador Katherine Tai found in January, at the tail end of the Biden Administration, that China\u2019s targeting the maritime, logistics, and shipbuilding sectors for dominance is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/ustr-chinas-dominance-of-global-shipbuilding-warrants-u-s-action\/\">actionable under Section 301 <\/a>of the Trade Act of 1974. Now, under a new administration, the office of the USTR has announced the actions<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/ustr-proposes-massive-port-fees-on-chinese-built-ships-entering-u-s-ports\/\"> it proposes to take.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignleft is-type-wp-embed is-provider-marine-log wp-block-embed-marine-log\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"CdcxwSIyrJ\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/ustr-proposes-massive-port-fees-on-chinese-built-ships-entering-u-s-ports\/\">USTR proposes massive port fees on Chinese-built ships entering U.S. ports<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"\u201cUSTR proposes massive port fees on Chinese-built ships entering U.S. ports\u201d \u2014 Marine Log\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/ustr-proposes-massive-port-fees-on-chinese-built-ships-entering-u-s-ports\/embed\/#?secret=ju5t4CADuq#?secret=CdcxwSIyrJ\" data-secret=\"CdcxwSIyrJ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Among others, they include a $1 million per port call fee on Chinese operated ships and an up to $1.5 million per call on other operators that have Chinese built ships in their fleets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOcean container carriers will take action to avoid the fees, such as calling at fewer ports, which could cause major congestion and delays in the U.S.,\u201d says Peter Sand, chief analyst at ocean and air freight intelligence platform Xeneta. \u201cWe saw a similar situation last year when carriers cut port calls in Asia and handled more containers per call at Singapore in an effort to offset the impact of the Red Sea crisis and diversions around Africa. The intentions were good, but the severe congestion caused by handling more containers in Singapore rippled across global supply chains and saw average spot rates from the Far East to U.S. East Coast spike more than 300%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sand said shippers could also take action to avoid the fees by importing goods into the U.S. via Mexico and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShippers have been using Mexico and Canada as a back door into the U.S. to avoid tariffs on imports from China,\u201d he noted. \u201cTrump has vowed to stop this trend by imposing tariffs of 25% on imports from Mexico and Canada and make using these nations as a backdoor less attractive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf shippers now face new port fees on top of the tariffs when importing directly into the U.S\/, it could change the situation again and fuel further growth in imports from China to Mexico and Canada. Ironically, Trump may be indirectly driving one of the very things he\u2019s trying to guard against.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could even see it cause an uplift in goods being shipped into the US by air.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe potential repercussions and unintended side-effects of these port fees are impossible to predict with any degree of certainty, which makes it such as challenging situation for both U.S. importers and carriers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe threat of even higher costs to import goods into the U.S. should be taken very seriously, but it remains to be seen whether it becomes a reality due to the impact it will have for U.S. businesses and, ultimately, consumers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand from talking to Xeneta customers that they are watching and listening to every word that comes out of the U.S. Administration, but there is so much uncertainty that they are keeping their options open and being patient before taking any rash decisions on their supply chains.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Read the rest of Sand\u2019s analysis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xeneta.com\/news\/trump-administration-must-urgently-assess-risks-of-severe-supply-chain-congestion-before-imposing-china-vessel-port-fees-analysts-warn\">HERE<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/u-s-port-fees-on-china-built-ships-carriers-weigh-their-options\/\">U.S. port fees on China-built ships? Carriers weigh their options<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/\">Marine Log<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Nick Blenkey<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/u-s-port-fees-on-china-built-ships-carriers-weigh-their-options\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=u-s-port-fees-on-china-built-ships-carriers-weigh-their-options\">Go to marinelog<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. port fees on China-built ships? Carriers weigh their options The prospect of U.S. port fees being imposed on Chinese-built ships is keeping shipping analysts busy. As we reported earlier, in response to a petition filed by U.S. unions back in March 2024, then U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Ambassador Katherine Tai found in January, at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[884,192,199,2924,2850,2925],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-5438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-marinelog","category-news","category-peter-sand","category-ustr","category-xeneta","tag-marinelog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}