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Industry Advisory: Requirements to Maintain Status as a VOCC
Common carriers publishing automated tariffs as vessel-operating common carriers (VOCCs) must operate at least one vessel in common carriage in the foreign commerce of the United States to maintain their status. Organizations offering common carriage…
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FMC Seeks Public Comments on New Maersk & Hapag-Lloyd Cooperative Agreement
The Federal Maritime Commission has opened a 12-day comment period allowing interested members of the public to respond to Maersk and Hapag Lloyd’s newly filed vessel sharing agreement, the Gemini Cooperation Agreement. Instructions for submitting…
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Industry Advisory – Requirement to File Timely and Accurate Service Contracts
The Federal Maritime Commission reminds vessel-operating common carriers (VOCCs) they must file all service contracts and amendments to service contracts in the Commission’s SERVCON system no later than thirty (30) days after the effective date. Failure to…
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