The Port of New York and New Jersey has announced that it will charge a new quarterly “container imbalance fee” from ocean carriers as part of the port’s efforts to deal with container congestion. According to the new system, the total outgoing container volume of an ocean carrier must equal or exceed 110 percent of…

More than 100 members of Congress are calling on federal maritime authorities to probe what they say are ocean carrier actions that undermine American exports by refusing to pick up U.S. goods, instead returning empty after dropping off imports. In a letter (pdf) to Michael A. Khouri, chair of the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), the…