Aug. 31, 2021 - News broke that US-based pollock giant American Seafoods and other Alaska seafood suppliers are facing hundreds of millions in fines as part of a dispute with the US Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) related to how the companies move product from Dutch Harbor, Alaska, facilities to the United States.

Sept. 2, 2021 - Kloosterboer International Forwarding (KIF) and Alaska Reefer Management (ARM) , affiliates of US pollock giant American Seafoods, filed a motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to stop a US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) enforcement action.

Sept. 15, 2021 - US Customs submits video evidence of Bayside railway and claims companies tried to hide it.

Sept. 29, 2021 - A US federal judge denied a request from Kloosterboer International Forwarding (KIF) and Alaska Reefer Management (ARM) for a temporary restraining order against the US Customs enforcement action. The Judge said the rail track -- incorporated as the Bayside Canadian Railway -- had not properly filed tariffs with US Customs. Days later, the parties filed the necessary tariffs and paperwork with the government.

Oct. 11, 2021 - Kloosterboer International Forwarding (KIF) and Alaska Reefer Management (ARM) were granted the preliminary injunction to stop a US Customs enforcement action that threatened the companies' ability to supply Alaska seafood to US customers via the Bayside route.

Oct. 29, 2021 - Federal judge sides with American Seafoods' shipping affiliates in prohibiting US Customs from "issuing and enforcing additional penalty notices for shipments via the Bayside Route prior to Sept. 30, 2021, and from enforcing the notices of penalty that have already been issued," while the case remains in litigation.

Nov. 2, 2021 - Alaska fish shipments via controversial Bayside route resume.

May 25, 2022 - Federal judge rules that transportation of Alaska pollock on the Bayside Canadian Railway (BCR) does not comply with the Third Proviso of the Jones Act. Despite ruling that the BCR did not comply with the Jones Act, the judge ruled the court is "vacating the notices of penalty" issued by US Customs to the seafood companies that included $25 million for KIF and $325 million for other plaintiffs using the route. The judge also upheld a preliminary injunction, issued last October in favor of American Seafoods affiliates Kloosterboer, International Forwarding (KIF) and Alaska Reefer Management (ARM), that temporarily freed pollock suppliers, processors and other companies along the supply chain from mounting fines from US Customs, and re-established use of the disputed shipping scheme.

July 19, 2023- Litigation between American Seafoods' affiliates Kloosterboer International Forwarding (KIF) and Alaska Reefer Management (ARM) and the US government over hundreds of million in fines imposed for using a controversial route for transporting Alaska pollock to the US East Coast has been settled.

American Seafoods affiliates cite financial harm as settlement over controversial rail route drags on