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DGX - Dependable Global Express

1/3/2022

Dear Valued Customer,

The following is provided for your information:

Holiday Schedules

The offices listed below will be closed for the holiday as follows:

China	New Years	January 3
Japan	New Years	January 3
Australia	New Years	January 3
New Zealand	New Years	January 3 - 4
Japan	Coming of Age Day	January 10
Australia	Australia Day	January 26

Please remember that certain offices are across the International Dateline. The dates above for the non-USA offices holidays are their dates, not the actual U.S. date.

Australia and New Zealand GRI

As a result of increases to ocean freight rates from the Ocean Carriers, DGX is implementing a GRI to recover these costs as detailed below:

Origin	Destination	Type	New Surcharge	Effective Date
All US Origins	All LCL Destinations to and via Australia and New Zealand	GRI	$8 W/M - Min $8	January 10

Any mitigation and/or delays of the increase will be passed along as applicable.

We appreciate your continued support and understanding of these increases. 

Should you have any questions, please contact your local DGX office or representative, or call us at 888-488-4888 or at 310-669-8888.

Rail Delays - All BNSF origins with a Los Angeles destination

The BNSF has closed their gates at all BNSF origin ramp locations to traffic billed to the destination of Los Angeles until further notice. This embargo is only for units billed with a BNSF origin and only for the destination of Los Angeles at this time. There is no estimated time of reopening.

Los Angeles/Long Beach Port Congestion

The previously announced Container Excess Dwell Fee to be assessed on import full containers has been delayed once more, this time until January 3, 2022.

• The fee is to be applied to containers scheduled to move via truck that remain at the terminal in excess of 8 days and to all containers scheduled to move via rail that remain at the terminal in excess of 5 days.
  
  
• The cost is $100 per container on the first day past the set dwelling limit for terminal or rail and will increase by $100 increments for each day that follows (i.e., $200 for day 2, $300 for day 3 and so on) until the container leaves the port.

The surcharge is meant to help clear the congestion at the Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex that has reached record proportions. Additionally, the corresponding revenue is purposed to be invested in port infrastructure and efficiency programs.

DGX is working diligently to avoid or at the very least minimize the impact of this new surcharge to our customers by facilitating cargo movement as it is made available by the port terminals.

DGX Blog – Shipping Insights

We encourage you to visit our blog at www.dgxglobal.com to see our latest updates, progress, helpful hints, and shipping insights. Once there you can access links to our other social media pages, where we share company items we believe are newsworthy.

Should you have any questions, please contact your local DGX office or representative, or call us at 888-488-4888 or at 310-669-8888.

Thank you for your business – we appreciate it!

From all of us at DGX, we wish you and your loved ones your best year yet for 2022!