Pacific Maritime Association

benefits were funded by assessments on hours; only the CFS plan was funded by tonnage. On December 14, 1983 the Memorandum of Agreement Concerning Assessments to Pay ILWU-PMA Employee Benefit Costs was approved and implemented. Revenue Tonnage Reporting All waterborne cargo revenue tonnage loaded and discharged in California, Oregon and Washington ports, for which persons were paid in connection with its movement under the terms of ILWU-PMA collective bargaining agreements, is required to be reported to PMA. Cargo revenue tonnage is subject to assessments to fund that portion of the collectively bargained fringe benefits costs that are not funded by hourly assessments and to fund other industry obligations. Data generated by the tonnage reporting system is used to determine membership voting strength, to measure terminal and port productivity, to compile statistics necessary for the collective bargaining process, and to assist in projecting short term work force and training requirements. An Internet-based tonnage reporting system was introduced in February 2000 to replace a paper-based reporting system. The Internet tonnage reporting system provides additional features such as automatic conversion from metric to common U.S. mea- surement and automatic container box conversion to twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs). The metric conversion was particularly important for reporting companies since nearly all import and export manifests record cargo weight and/or volume in metric units. Tonnage data published by PMA includes cargo moving in international (foreign) trade and in domestic trade (Alaska, Hawaii, coastwise and intercoastal). For this reason PMA's data will generally differ from data published by government agencies, PIERS™ and other reporting entities. In general the PMA tonnage data will be greater. Tonnage definitions and reporting requirements are shown in the PMA Tonnage Reporting System Manual available to tonnage reporting entities. A brief description of the reporting system follows. Reporting Responsibilities PMA Members and other companies that have entered into collective bargaining agreements that include participation in benefits plans admin- istered by PMA are required to pay applicable assessments on all cargo tonnage loaded and discharged in California, Oregon and Washington ports. Any Member (Vessel Operator, Con- tracting Stevedore or Member Agent) who is responsible for paying but fails to pay tonnage assessments may be further liable for penalties and interest. Cargo Movement Revenue tonnage is identified by the geographic movement of the cargo. Cargo assessment rates differ according to the geographic movement of cargo and the type of cargo. The geographic movement of waterborne cargo may be: • Offshore & Intercoastal. Cargo loaded or discharged at a California, Oregon or Washington port which was originally loaded or is destined for final discharge in a port not located in California, Oregon or Washington, • Coastwise. Cargo loaded at one California, Oregon or Washington port for discharge at another California, Oregon or Washington port, or • Inbound from British Columbia. Applicable only to General Cargo and Lumber & Logs loaded in the province of British Columbia, Canada, for discharge in a Cali- fornia, Oregon or Washington port. Reporting Categories Container cargo is assessed on the basis of a revenue unit or a TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit), and Non-Containerized Cargo is reported in revenue tons. Containers Containers are reported according to their outside length in feet, specifically 20', 24', 35', 40', 45', 48' and 53'. The tonnage reporting system automatically converts the container length to TEUs: one TEU for each 20 feet of outside container length. Containers reported as Assessable are subject to assessment. Containers reported as Empty, Transshipped and Exempt are not assessed. Containers reported as "containerized autos" are not assessed as containers, but the cubic measurement of the autos in the containers are reported and assessed under the Auto & Truck category. A company that reports tonnage also has the option of reporting containers loaded with autos in the Assessable container category. A cargo-bearing container is assessed one time as it moves through California, Oregon and Washington ports from origin to final destination. A container, by definition, begins a new assessment cycle at any point at which its contents are changed. The removal or addition of any portion of the cargo in a container causes a new assessment cycle to begin. Non-Containerized Cargo Non-containerized cargo is reported as revenue tons. The rules below specify how the cargo is converted to revenue tons for assessment purposes. Revenue tonnage for manifested cargo is deter- mined based on how ocean revenue is calculated. When ocean revenue is based on: • measurement, 40 cubic feet equals one revenue ton; • weight, 2,000 pounds equals one revenue ton; or • board feet, 1,000 board feet equals one revenue ton. All non-containerized revenue tonnage is reported in one of the following four categories. General Cargo is reported as mani- fested. General cargo includes all non-containerized cargo that is not reported in the Lumber & Logs, Autos and Bulk categories. Examples of such cargo include truck trailers, live animals, livestock, yachts, bagged 52 2 0 1 5 A N N U A L R E P O R T I N D U S T R Y A S S E S S M E N T S

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