Port Klang Authority (PKA) has said it will not extend a three-month grace period on enforcing changes to rules that require shippers to pay storage charges for full-container load (FCL) cargo at Port Klang after 72 hours, Business Times reported.
"We have heard their (shippers') concerns and have given them enough time to put things in place. We have now come to the stage where we will go ahead and implement the change in policy," PKA general manager Kee Lian Yong said.
The implementation of the new law reducing the period in which containers can be stored at Port Klang for free from five days to three, has been postponed several times in the last eight years, following objections from some players in the shipping community in Port Klang who feel they were not quite ready yet.
The last deadline that PKA had set was January 1, 2010. While the authority actually pushed through with the implementation, it was not without some relaxations.
For one, free storage charges are now based on a calculation of hours (72 hours) instead of days (three days).
PKA also said it will waive the storage charges if delays are caused by Customs, other government agencies or the terminal itself.
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