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August 1997
The FMC Bureau of Enforcement recently announced compromise agreements with ten organizations accused of violations of the Shipping Act of 1984. None of the parties named below admitted to any violat…
August 1997
This docketed proceeding calls for an FMC investigation and hearing to determine whether Topocean Consolidation Service Ltd., a Taiwan based NVOCC, Topocean Consolidation Service (Los Angeles) Inc. an…
August 1997
The FMC has opened a formal investigation to determine whether Pacon Express, Inc. violated the Shipping Act of 1984 and Commission regulations in connection with the payment of forwarding compensatio…
August 1997
On July 31, 1997 notice was published in the Federal Register that Intercargo Insurance Company, Inc. has filed a petition for declaratory order in this matter. In its petition, Intercargo has request…
August 1997
Slower than promised progress in the reform of Japan's harbor services industry could cause the FMC to impose sanctions of $100,000 per voyage against the big three Japanese containership operators on…
August 1997
In late July separate House and Senate committees approved legislation authorizing fiscal year 1998 budgets for several federal transportation agencies, including the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC)…
August 1997
On July 31st, in one of its last actions before the summer recess, the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation completed its report on Senate Bill No. S.414, the Ocean Shipping Ref…
August 1997
The FMC has given notice in the Federal Register of the filing of the following agreements under the Shipping Act of 1984. Agreements approved by the FMC take effect 45 days after publication in the F…
August 1997
The Agreement permits FANAL, upon certain limitations, to charter space (up to the entire vessel) on FESCO's vessels in the trade between the United States and Australia and New Zealand. The parties a…
August 1997
On July 16, 1997 notice was given that the Federal Maritime Commission pursuant to section 6(d) of the Shipping Act of 1984 (46 U.S.C. app. 1701-1720) has requested additional information from the par…
August 1997
The proposed Agreement would authorize the parties to discuss and agree upon rates, charges and practices relating to the inland portion of the carriage of cargo in intermodal equipment in the United …
August 1997
On July 24, 1997 notice was given that the Federal Maritime Commission has requested additional information from the parties to the Agreement in order to complete the statutory review of the Agreement…
August 1997
The proposed Agreement would permit DSEN to charter space to POL aboard its vessels in the trade between United States ports, and inland and coastal points via such ports, and ports in Europe in the B…
August 1997
The proposed modification adds Japan to the geographic scope, establishes an additional service that will call at US West Coast ports (CAX-II) and renames the current US West Coast service (CAX-I). Th…
August 1997
The proposed amendment would permit the parties to reach agreement with non-member lines on the terms and conditions of service contracts to be offered by each of them and to agree with the non-confer…
August 1997
The proposed amendment would permit the parties to aggregate the volume of cargo for purposes of service contracts separately published in their respective essential terms publications. Agreement No.:…
August 1997
Under the terms of the Agreement, the Port assigns to SSA a preferential right to manage, operate, and solicit cargo at the Port's Charles B. Howard Terminal. The initial term of the Agreement will be…
August 1997
The proposed amendment would expand the scope of the Agreement to include Trinidad. Agreement No.: 203-011582 Federal Register Date: July 28, 1997 Title: Maersk/SL/VCL Agreement Parties: A.P. Mo…
August 1997
The proposed Agreement would authorize the parties to consult and agree on the deployment and utilization of their vessels; charter vessels and vessel space between themselves; interchange containers …
August 1997
The proposed modification provides that Agreement parties are not precluded from sharing vessels with and or chartering space to or from vessel operating common carriers that are not Agreement partie…
June 1997
Evidence collected by the FMC pursuant to the Section 15 Order issued to members of the Trans-Atlantic Conference Agreement (TACA) on February 22, 1996 brought a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between …
June 1997
Like Docket 97-07, this investigation began with evidence collected pursuant to the Section 15 Order issued by the FMC to members of the Trans-Atlantic Conference Agreement (TACA) in 1996. Among the d…
June 1997
Docket No. 97-06 : Shipman International (Taiwan) Ltd., Order of Investigation and Hearing …
June 1997
An enhancement to the Internet World Wide Web site of Distribution-Publications, Inc. makes back issues of SIGNALS Ô more widely available. Web users will find these at SIGNALS Index For the most t…
June 1997
According to a recent report in the Hong Kong Shipping Gazette, shipping lines at Hong Kong have publicly expressed their support for compulsory freight forwarding licensing. Claus Hemmingsen, vice-ch…
June 1997
On May 1, 1997 the Senate Committee on Commerce ordered this proposed legislation "to be reported with an amendment in the nature of substitute favorably." In other words, the Committee agreed an amen…
