Orient Overseas Container Line, adding to a growing list of surcharges to compensate for port congestion in the Indian sub-continent, said it will apply port congestion surcharges on shipments from Hong Kong, Macau and South China to Bangladesh.

The charges effective Aug. 1 follow Cosco Container Lines’ announcement that it will impose a congestion surcharge at India’s Jawaharlal Nehru port for goods going to Europe effective Aug. 15.

OOCL’s surcharge covers goods going into the Indian sub-continent from Hong Kong, Macau and South China.

The surcharges on shipments to Chittagongy are $150 per TEU, $300 per FEU and $300 per FEU high cube container.

The surcharges to Dhaka are $250 per TEU, $500 per FEU and $500 per FEU high cube.

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