FMC Revokes Certain Controlled Carrier Exemptions
The Federal Maritime Commission is revoking exemptions for several carriers that had allowed them to impose new rates, charges, classifications, rules or regulations with less than the commission’s required 30 days’ notice. The action applies to certain controlled carriers -- vessel-operating common carriers owned or controlled by a foreign government -- because they have been removed from the FMC’s list of controlled carriers “over the years.” The agency said they either no longer offer “carriage in the U.S. trades” or have since been bought by private companies.
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The carriers are: Sinotrans Container Lines Co. Ltd.; Hainan P O Shipping Co. Ltd.; United Arab Shipping Co. (S.A.G.); China Shipping (Hong Kong) Container Lines Co. Ltd.; China Shipping Container Lines Co. Ltd.; American President Lines Ltd. and APL Co., Pte. Ltd.; and COSCO Container Lines Europe GmbH. The FMC said a carrier can petition to again be exempted from the 30 days’ notice requirement “if its status changes such that it again becomes classified as a controlled carrier.”
The commission added that exemptions for Orient Overseas Container Line Ltd., OOCL (Europe) Ltd., COSCO SHIPPING Lines Co. and the Chinese-Polish Joint Stock Shipping Co. (Chipolbrok) remain in place because they're still on the controlled carrier list. “However, the Commission may review these exemptions in the future.”