APM Terminals Pier 400
APM Terminals · Los Angeles / Long Beach · USLAX
The San Pedro Bay complex runs twelve container terminals under two port authorities. Appointment scarcity, not vessel delay, is the leading cause of demurrage here, and a day with no available dual-transaction slot is not merchant-caused under the FMC rule.
Which clock is whose
Carrier demurrage is billed by the line under its local filing. Terminal storage at Pier 400 is separate and starts after the terminal free period, which is not the same as the carrier free period.
Gate & appointments
Appointment-based gate with published shift windows and dual-transaction capability. Screenshots of an appointment system with no available slots are the strongest evidence in a demurrage dispute here.
Chassis
Pool of pools chassis; supply constraints are episodic and usually chassis-type specific rather than terminal-wide.
What is usually reversible
Days when no appointment existed for the container class you needed are not merchant-caused. US import: under the FMC rule (46 CFR 541) a demurrage or detention invoice must carry specified information and the charge must serve a genuine incentive purpose. A defective invoice eliminates the obligation to pay.
Services normally calling
- Maersk
- Gemini Cooperation services
- Hapag-Lloyd
Gate hours, appointment rules and the storage tariff are published by the operator: APM Terminals Pier 400 terminal page. Also searched as: Pier 400, APMT Los Angeles, Maersk terminal LA.
Check a charge from this terminal
Work out the last free day, then see whether the days billed survive the tariff.