Patrick have announced increases to various Landside Access and Terminal Fees (Infrastructure charges).
They have issued the following in relation to the announcement:
‘Patrick has completed a review of its Landside charge (previously Infrastructure surcharge) and other Terminal Ancillary charges. The Landside charge, which recovers a portion of the full costs associated with providing landside operations, is essential to continue to provide our customers with superior and efficient landside service levels.
The Landside charge recovers a portion of the costs that relate to:
- Capital investments and commitments made to dedicated infrastructure that services our landside interface operations. Patrick continues to make significant capital investment and commitments for the benefit of its customers
- Maintenance and operational costs associated with providing our landside interface operations and
- Property and property-related costs
The Landside charge will be applied to both road and rail transport operators for all full container movements, both import and export, made at the Terminals. Road operators will be invoiced electronically via 1-Stop while rail operators will have the charge separately itemised on their rail invoice.
We regret this change to our cost structure but without sacrificing infrastructure investment and further performance improvements, we have been left with no alternative in the current economic challenging environment.’
While this news does not come as a shock to ACF, it is another significant increase and one that to our mind doesn’t mimic the current environmental climate. The increase in fees and change in fee structure will affect ACF, as it will all importers, forwarders and exporters.
As always, when we have more news – you’ll be the first to hear it.