Office of Agreements

Director
Jeremiah D. Hospital

The Bureau's agreement program activities consist of: (1) processing carrier and marine terminal operator agreement filings under the procedures of the Shipping Act; (2) conducting a comprehensive review and analysis of all pertinent facets of agreements to recommend appropriate action to the Commission on the disposition of filed agreements; (3) making appropriate recommendations on requests for a waiver of Information Form and Monitoring Report filing requirements; (4) maintaining the Commission's official agreement archives; and (5) maintaining an agreement database that contains pertinent information on each ocean common carrier and marine terminal operator agreement filed with the Commission.