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Breaking Alert
5/24/2018
Subject:
Hawaii Harbor Fee and Security Fee
Dear Valued Customer:
As many of you are
aware, efforts to modernize Hawaii’s port facilities and make them more
secure have been underway for the past several years. As a state dependent
on ocean transportation, Hawaii’s harbors provide vitally important
share-use facilities for the movement of nearly all of the Islands’ cargo, as
well as passenger vessels. The State
implemented a multi-year fee increase two (2) years ago to pay for the
modernization efforts, as follows:
Wharfage Fee
The State of Hawaii Department
of Transportation, Harbors Division has been phasing in wharfage fee increases
over the last 2 (two) years. A third
planned increase of 15% will take effect on July 1, 2018.
While rates vary
depending on equipment size, commodity, and destination, for our full container
load customers, the July 2018 change will result in increases of approximately
$18 to $36.00 per container on domestic Honolulu freight and $38 to $76 on
domestic Neighbor Island freight. The
change will be effective with sailings on or after July 1. 2018. This charge
will show on our invoices to you included in the wharfage line charge, unless
you currently have an “all-in” rate.
Our LCL wharfage rates will
be increased by $.03 (3 cents) a cubic foot to Oahu and $.05 (5 cents) per
cubic foot to the Neighbor Islands effective with sailings on or after July 1,
2018.
Hawaii Facility Security Fee-(aka: HFSC)
The State of Hawaii also
announced that its planned increase to its Facilities Security Charge will take
effect on July 1, 2018. The Facilities
Security Charge will increase from $17.25 to $19.84 per container for Oahu and
from $25.87 to $29.76 per container for Neighbor Island shipments
effective July 1, 2018.
The new Hawaii Facilities Security Charge
shall be increased for Oahu to $.02 (2 cents) per cubic foot effective with
sailings on or after July 1, 2018. The
Outer Islands Hawaii Facility Security Fee will remain as is. This charge will appear on our invoices as a
separate line called “Hawaii Facilities Security Charge”, unless
you currently have an “all-in” rate.
Hawaii to Guam Wharfage and HFSC Fees
Because of the above-discussed increases in our underlying
costs, we are changing our Hawaii to Guam terminal handling charges to reflect
these adjustments. THC will increase by $0.08 per cubic foot effective with
sailings on or after July 1, 2018.
We apologize for any inconvenience these changes may cause
you.
Should you have any questions, please contact our Corporate
Customer Service at 800-488-4888, or 310-537-2000, Ext. 2020 or email us
at custserv@dhx.com.
Thank you for your business - We appreciate it.