Bimco is developing a new standard charter clause to guide owners through the maze of US port fees targeting Chinese shipping.
The Copenhagen-based shipowners’ organisation has begun work to address “contractual uncertainties” arising from the measures to impose extra levies on some Chinese-built or owned ships calling at US ports.
The watered-down proposals were clarified earlier this year, with oil exports in effect exempt from the US trade representative (USTR)’s fees for all but Chinese-owned tankers.
