awarded<\/a> the claimant $45m.<\/p>\nSamsung\u2019s docket was lodged at the FMC in late August, and claims CMA CGM billed the shipper with excessive and unlawful detention and demurrage charges, as well as reneging on its contractual commitments under \u201cstore door\u201d delivery terms \u2013 from the beginning of 2020, Samsung had moved from buying freight for its US imports from a port-port basis to a store-door contract, which meant CMA CM was responsible for both the ocean leg to the US and the inland leg within the US.<\/p>\n
\u201cSEA [Samsung Electronics America] was forced to pay excessive and unlawful charges assessed by CMA\u2014known as \u201cdemurrage and detention\u201d charges\u2014and was forced to undertake and perform significant parts of the ocean common carrier\u2019s inland transportation responsibilities (responsibilities that CMA had already been paid to perform) in order to obtain delivery and possession of its cargo and continue to import its products sold to American consumers,\u201d the claim says, alleging that despite the merging problems with intermodal transport in the US during the pandemic, the carrier \u201ccontinued to transport SEA goods under store door through bills of lading or sea waybills for inland delivery in the United States, and continued to fail, repeatedly, to perform its inland transportation obligations properly, exposing SEA to unreasonable costs, charges, delays, and other harms\u201d.<\/p>\n
It further claims that since mid-2020 Samsung had to settle 121,000 individual detention, demurrage and other charges passed to it by CMA CGM, while the carrier often refused to release cargo unless D&D charges had been settled with supply chain third-parties including railroad, container depots and sub-contracted truckers.<\/p>\n
In one example, it cited a container booked from South Korea\u2019s largest port, Busan, to an inland destination in Texas. The box was unloaded in Long Beach, but there it stayed.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough the container was moving under a store door bill of lading, obligating CMA to deliver it to the inland destination, CMA notified SEA that the container was showing as \u2018merchant haulage\u2019 upon arrival.<\/p>\n
\u201cCMA later clarified that, due to repeated scheduling changes and unpaid rail storage fees, the store door shipment had been terminated at the rail ramp and SEA was responsible for arranging delivery.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a result of CMA\u2019s unilateral conversion from door to CY, this container accrued $162,799 in rail storage,\u201d the claims says.<\/p>\n
A number of other examples, running through to 2024, were also disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Gavin van Marle 4 September 2026 South Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung has lodged the largest claim…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13062],"tags":[2213,45583,45584,45585,45586],"class_list":["post-74563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cma-cgm","tag-cma-cgm","tag-detention-demurrage-charges","tag-federal-maritime-commission","tag-in-the-dock","tag-samsung-electronics-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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