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The Federal Maritime Commission’s proposal to create a container rate index for agricultural exports would violate the Ocean Shipping Reform Act’s confidentiality provisions and should be abandoned, the World Shipping Council said. The council’s statement came in a strongly worded response to the commission’s request for comments on the index proposal. FMC Chairman Richard Lidinsky [...]  Any new federal surface transportation bill that emerges from the committee of lawmakers conferencing on the measure should include provisions establishing a national policy for freight movement, a group of organizations invested in the shipping and retail industries said Thursday. The Freight Stakeholders Coalition, which was form to press lawmakers to consider freight issues in [...]
June 2011: Container ship Deneb in Algeciras: A review after this incident found that 16 containers on the ship’s load list had actual weights far in excess of the declared weights, by as much 6.7 times the declared weight. The International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) has joined with the World Shipping Council (WSC), [...] |
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