To Provide for the Operation of Steamship Conferences: Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on Steamship Conferences of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session, on H.R. 4299, to Amend the Shipping Act, 1916, as Amended, to Provide for the Operation of Steamship Conferences, March 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, April 10, 26, and 28, 1961 |
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Page 539 - ... other person subject to this Act, or modification or cancellation thereof, to which It may be a party or conform In whole or in part, fixing or regulating transportation rates or fares...
Page 211 - ... nor shall any carrier charge or demand or collect or receive a greater or less or different compensation for...
Page 65 - agreement" in this section includes understandings, conferences, and other arrangements. The board may by order disapprove, cancel, or modify any agreement, or any modification or cancellation thereof, whether or not previously approved by it, that it finds to be unjustly discriminatory or unfair as between carriers, shippers, exporters, importers, or ports, or between exporters from the United States and their foreign competitors, or to operate to the detriment of the commerce of the United States,...
Page 2 - All agreements, modifications, or cancellations made after the organization of the board shall be lawful only when and as long as approved by the board, and before approval or after disapproval It shall be unlawful to carry out in whole or In part, directly or indirectly, any such agreement, modification, or cancellation.
Page 68 - Every such carrier and every other person subject to this Act shall establish, observe, and enforce just and reasonable regulations and practices relating to or connected with the receiving, handling, storing, or delivering of property. Whenever the board finds that any such regulation or practice is unjust or unreasonable it may determine, prescribe, and order enforced a just and reasonable regulation or practice.
Page 482 - Board may also require any air carrier to file with It a true copy of each or any contract, agreement, understanding, or arrangement, between such air carrier and any other carrier or person, In relation to any traffic affected by the provisions of this Act.
Page 4 - Whenever a carrier by railroad shall in competition with a water route or routes reduce the rates on the carriage of any species of freight to or from competitive points, it shall not be permitted to increase such rates unless after hearing by the Interstate Commerce Commission it shall be found that such proposed increase rests upon changed conditions other than the elimination of water competition.
Page 453 - ... limiting or regulating in any way the volume or character of freight or passenger traffic to be carried ; or in any manner providing for an exclusive preferential, or cooperative working arrangement.
Page 237 - The Commission shall disapprove any rate or charge filed by a common carrier by water in the foreign commerce of the United States or conference of carriers which, after hearing, it finds to be so unreasonably high or low as to be detrimental to the commerce of the United States.
Page 28 - Act" means any person not included in the term "common carrier by water," carrying on the business of forwarding or furnishing wharfage, dock, warehouse, or other terminal facilities in connection with a common carrier by water.