To Amend the Shipping Act, 1916: 85-21958 - 269 sidor |
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To Amend the Shipping Act, 1916 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1958 |
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Sida 27 - An Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies...
Sida 27 - agreement" in this section includes understandings, conferences, and other arrangements. The Board may be order disapprove, cancel, or modify any agreement, or any modification or cancellation thereof, whether or not previously approved by it...
Sida 204 - It is the view of the committee that open competition cannot be assured for any length of time by ordering existing agreements terminated. The entire history of steamship agreements shows that in ocean commerce there is no happy medium between war and peace when several lines engage in the same trade. Most of the numerous agreements and conference arrangements discussed in the foregoing report were the outcome of rate wars, and represent a truce between the contending lines.
Sida 27 - Retaliate against any shipper by refusing, or threatening to refuse, space accommodations when such are available, or resort to other discriminating or unfair methods, because such shipper has patronized any other carrier or has filed a complaint charging unfair treatment, or for any other reason.
Sida 28 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier 'by water, or other person subject to this Act, either alone or in conjunction with any other person, directly or indirectly : First. To make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, locality, or description of traffic in any respect whatsoever...
Sida 27 - Every air carrier shall file with the Board a true copy, or, if oral, a true and complete memorandum, of every contract or agreement (whether enforceable by provisions for liquidated damages, penalties, bonds, or otherwise) affecting air transportation and in force on the effective date of this section or hereafter entered into, or any modification or cancellation thereof...
Sida 28 - No common carrier by water in foreign commerce shall demand, charge, or collect any rate, fare, or charge which is unjustly discriminatory between shippers or ports, or unjustly prejudicial to exporters of the United States as compared with their foreign competitors.
Sida 204 - To terminate existing agreements would necessarily bring about one of two results : the lines would either engage in rate wars which would mean the elimination of the weak and the survival of the strong, or, to avoid a costly struggle, they would consolidate through common ownership. Neither result can be prevented by legislation, and either would mean a monopoly fully as effective, and it is believed more so, than can exist by virtue of an agreement.
Sida 27 - ... fixing or regulating transportation rates or fares ; giving or receiving special rates, accommodations, or other special privileges or advantages; controlling, regulating, preventing, or destroying competition; pooling or apportioning earnings, losses, or traffic ; allotting ports or restricting or otherwise regulating the number and character of sailings between ports; limiting or regulating in any way the volume or character of freight or passenger traffic to be carried ; or in any manner providing...
Sida 28 - ... and amendments and Acts supplementary thereto, and the provisions of sections seventy-three to seventy-seven, both inclusive, of the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled "An Act to reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes," and amendments and Acts supplementary thereto.