Harbor leaders on Monday lacked the votes needed to repeal a long-postponed Infrastructure Cargo Fee to be charged to cargo owners beginning Jan. 1, 2014. The port has not determined the amount of the fee.

Commissioners Rich Dines and Doug Drummond opposed the repeal and instead suggested postponing the fee to 2016. While Dines doesn’t support implementing the fee at this time, keeping it on the books isn’t necessarily a bad thing given the port’s various infrastructure projects, including the replacement of the Gerald Desmond Bridge, he said.

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