Fee Details for OakPass Program Released

The container terminal operators at the Port of Oakland plan to begin collecting an Extended Gate Fee (EGF) of $17 per twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU), or $34 on a forty-foot container under the new OakPass program, OakPass said in a news release (here). "The EGF will be assessed on loaded import and export containers entering or exiting the terminals during Peak hours, defined as Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. through 6:00 p.m.," it said. The operators recently requested Federal Maritime Commission approval for the program, which is modeled after the "OffPeak" PierPass program at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles (see 1508200026). “After spending well over a year evaluating options including night gates, we determined that adding a Saturday gate is the most practical and cost-effective method to increase capacity in a way that meshes with availability of truck drivers and longshore workers and serves the entire supply chain,” said John Cushing, president of PierPass and the new OakPass company that will manage the collections.