LAX Clean Truck Tax Deferred Till Mid 2010

by yoel Mon May 11 2009, 22:33

May 11 2009

Long Beach clean truck tax deferred till mid-2010

LONG
Beach Port has dropped and deferred the Infrastructure Cargo Fee until
at least July 1, 2010 and modified the Clean Truck Fee to encourage
privately financed replacement trucks due to begin October 1.

The
port's board of commissioners approved incentives of a reduced wharfage
rate for intermodal cargo of 10 per cent which would cost the port up
to US$1 million with an aim for "terminal operators to maintain or
increase their 'discretionary' cross-country cargo that could be
shipped through any of several ports to reach inland destinations."
Implementation of $35-per-TEU clean-truck tax was eliminated for
privately financed clean trucks and for port-funded liquefied natural
gas or alternative-fuelled trucks; and for new trucks funded by gateway
cities and for the "first 50 or so" new trucks funded by the Clean
Trucks Programme. According to a port statement charges for day passes
were reduced to $30 for out-of-state or infrequent truckers, only
container cargo moved by 2006 and older trucks and clean diesel trucks
funded by port after April 20 will pay the Clean Truck Fee of $35 per
TEU and $70 per FEU plus.

Source : schednet