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New year, new surcharge: RFNSW

Truck operators are facing a DP World early/late arrival surcharge

 

With the new year less than a month old, state peak body Road Freight NSW (RFNSW) is going into bat against what it sees as a new cash-extraction move from stevedore DP World.

From February 1, if a truck arrives at DP World Logistics more than 60 minutes before the start of the nominated ‘notification window’, the carrier will be forced to pay an ‘off window surcharge’ of $25.50 per booking.

If a truck arrives more than 60 minutes after the end of the nominated slot, the carrier will also incur the same $25.50 “off window surcharge”. If a truck arrives within its ‘notification window’, the charge will be $16.50.


Read how the road haulage industry greeted the last surcharge hike, here


RFNSW chief executive Simon O’Hara says its members are asking why the new surcharges are being imposed on carriers given that the operation of empty container parks appear to be “inefficient, unproductive and haphazard”.

“It’s a new year and another new surcharge for truck operators,” O’Hara says.

“Our members are angry and frustrated they’ve been hit with further fees which are making their daily operations unsustainable.

“Notification windows for truck arrivals aren’t always available at short notice and it’s unfair that the length of time drivers may sit waiting in the rank waiting to be processed isn’t taken in to account when these surcharges are being applied.

“That’s why our members believe the penalties are unwarranted and yet another cost impost, on top of the new DP World infrastructure fee of $63.80 per container at the Port Botany terminal, which came in to effect on January 1.

“The quantum of these charges is impacting carriers and making it harder and harder for them to run their businesses.”

O’Hara says RFNSW will be meeting with DP World Logistics today in order to raise its concerns on behalf of its members.

 

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