Announcement
New as of December 1st 2022: reminder about forgotten declaration of inland harbour dues and adjustment of minimum amount of surcharge
Dear Sir or Madam,
When visiting the ports of Amsterdam or Zaanstad, professional inland navigation vessels must submit a declaration form and pay inland harbour dues. Port of Amsterdam will check whether inland navigation vessels that have been seen in the port area have done so within 28 days of arrival.
We are implementing two changes as of December 1st 2022:
Reminder if you forget to submit declaration of inland harbour dues
Customer feedback has revealed that submission of declaration is sometimes forgotten and that therefore a reminder would be appreciated. So Port of Amsterdam will regularly be sending reminders. Reminders to submit declaration of inland harbour dues if a vessel has been in the port area and it appears that no such declaration has been made. We will send this reminder seven days before the declaration period lapses.
Good to know: the reminders are there to help you, in the event that you accidentally forget once. If you continue to forget, we will stop sending reminders.
Adjusted minimum amount of surcharge
In order to keep inland harbour dues fair and affordable for everyone, it's important that every vessel that visits the port area should declare and pay inland harbour dues. If you submit an incorrect or overdue declaration, we regard that as failure to declare and will add a surcharge to the amount owed. That is already the case. However, the amount of the minimum surcharge will now depend on the number of times you have previously failed to submit a declaration.
• No failure to declare in the last 180 days: € 100
• Failure to declare in the last 180 days: € 250
• Failure to declare multiple times in the last 180 days: € 500
Good to know: the surcharge will not be applied if you submit a correct declaration on time after the reminder (see explanation above).
Read all about submitting a declaration of inland harbour dues to Port of Amsterdam here:https://www.portofamsterdam.com/en/shipping/inland-shipping/inland-harbour-dues
If you are not the person in your organisation tasked with declaring those inland harbour dues, we kindly ask you to forward this email to the appropriate person in your organisation.
