Terminal Handling Charge Shippers’ Perspective

What is THC?• THC, according to the Glossary of Shipping Terms, is acharge for handling services performed at the terminal. Ingeneral, it means the movement of containers within theterminal and the use of its facilities.• Based on the Shippers-Liners dialogue at the local level,IADA proposes that their THC comprised mainly ofstevedoring, empty repositioning and container-relatedservices; while TSA defined the limits of their THC“starting upon discharge of empty container from vesselthrough container receiving at the terminal gate until it wasloaded onto the vessel and vice-versa.”6