Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway Transportation Study: Hearings Before a Special Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session, in Connection with a Study of Transportation on the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway, Del 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964 - 723 sider |
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Side 599 - It is necessary for the national defense and development of its foreign and domestic commerce that the United States shall have a merchant marine (a) sufficient to carry its domestic waterborne commerce and a substantial portion of the waterborne export and import foreign commerce of the United States and to provide shipping service on all routes essential for maintaining the flow of such domestic and foreign waterborne commerce at all times...
Side 658 - That nothing in this Act shall prevent the carriage, storage, or handling of property free or at reduced rates for the United States, State, or municipal governments...
Side 662 - It is hereby declared to be the national transportation policy of the Congress to provide for fair and impartial regulation of all modes of transportation subject to the provisions of this Act, so administered as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each...
Side 684 - ... charges will go into effect; and the proposed changes shall be shown by printing new schedules, or shall be plainly indicated upon the schedules in force at the time and kept open to public inspection...
Side 684 - Provided, That the Commission may, in its discretion and for good cause shown, allow changes upon less than the notice herein specified, or modify the requirements of this section in respect to publishing, posting, and filing of tariffs, either in particular instances or by a general order applicable to special or peculiar circumstances or conditions.
Side 662 - ... to encourage the establishment and maintenance of reasonable charges for transportation services, without unjust discriminations, undue preferences or advantages, or unfair or destructive competitive practices; to cooperate with the several States and the duly authorized officials thereof; and to encourage fair wages and equitable working conditions; all to the end of developing, coordinating, and preserving a national transportation system by water, highway, and rail, as well as other means,...
Side 666 - The role of public policy should be to provide a consistent and comprehensive framework of equal competitive opportunity that will achieve this objective at the lowest economic and social cost to the Nation.
Side 676 - ... and the need of revenues necessary to allow carriers to provide such service. Such a service cannot be maintained when certain carriers dissipate their revenues to disastrously low levels, undeterred by the Interstate Commerce Act or by the Commission ; and can, if they wish, haul millions of tons of Federal cargo, not only at rates below commercial charges, but free of all charges, regardless of the destructive impact upon public interest. "What is discrimination?
Side 684 - ... notice to the Commission and to the public published as aforesaid, which shall plainly state the changes proposed to be made in the schedule then in force and the time when the...
Side 662 - ... foster sound economic conditions in transportation and among the several carriers; to encourage the establishment and maintenance of reasonable charges for transportation services without unjust discriminations, undue preferences or advantages, or unfair or destructive competitive practices; to cooperate with the several States and the duly authorized officials thereof...