[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 227 (Tuesday, November 25, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 62771]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-30908]


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FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION


Notice of Agreement(s) Filed

    The Commission hereby gives notice of the filing of the following 
agreement(s) under the Shipping Act of 1984.
    Interested parties can review or obtain copies of agreements at the 
Washington, DC offices of the Commission, 800 North Capitol Street, 
NW., Room 962. Interested parties may submit comments on an agreement 
to the Secretary, Federal Maritime Commission, Washington, DC 20573, 
within 10 days of the date this notice appears in the Federal Register.

    Agreement No.: 202-008090-041.
    Title: Mediterranean North Pacific Coast Freight Conference.
    Parties:

    Med Pacific Express
    Zim Israel Navigation Co., Ltd.

    Synopsis: The proposed amendment would permit the parties to 
discuss and agree, with voluntary adherence, on rates to be charged for 
the carriage of open tariff items and would reduce the independent 
action notice period applicable to direct vessel calls at San Francisco 
and Oakland from ten calendar days to two business days. It would also 
permit members that provide direct vessel service to Portland, Oregon, 
or serve Seattle via Portland to offer individual service contracts for 
those ports.

    Agreement No.: 202-011375-034.
    Title: Trans-Atlantic Conference Agreement (``TACA'').
    Parties:

    Atlantic Container Line AB
    Cho Yang Shipping Co., Ltd.
    DSR-Senator Lines
    Hanjin Shipping Co., Ltd.
    Hapag-Lloyd Container Linie GmbH
    Hyundai Merchant Marine Co., Ltd.
    Mediterranean Shipping Co., S.A.
    A.P. Moller-Maersk Line
    Orient Overseas Container Line (UK) Ltd.
    Neptune Orient Lines Ltd.
    Nippon Yusen Kaisha
    POL-Atlantic
    P&O Nedlloyd B.V.
    P&O Nedlloyd Limited
    Sea-Land Service, Inc.
    Tecomar S.A. de C.V.
    Transportation Maritima Mexicana, S.A. de C.V.

    Synopsis: The proposed modification (1) authorizes the parties to 
consider and act upon proposals and recommendations of the Equipment 
Interchange Discussion Agreement (FMC No. 202-011284), and (2) deletes 
expiration dates attached to exceptions to service contract through 
rate and assessorial charge guidelines applicable to shipments to and 
from the territory of the former Soviet Union.

    Agreement No.: 232-011521-004.
    Title: Hanjin/Tricon Far East Services Slot Charter Agreement.
    Parties:

    Hanjin Shipping Co., Ltd.
    Cho Yang Shipping Co. Ltd.
    DSR-Senator Lines GmbH

    Synopsis: The proposed amendment expands the geographic scope of 
the Agreement to include ports in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, 
Canada, and Central America. It also changes the name of the Agreement 
to the Hanjin/Tricon Slot Charter Agreement.

    Agreement No.: 232-011519-003.
    Title: Tricon/Hanjin Transpacific Agreement.
    Parties:

    Hanjin Shipping Co., Ltd.
    Cho Yang Shipping Co. Ltd.
    DSR-Senator Lines

    Synopsis: The proposed amendment expands the geographic scope of 
the Agreement to include ports in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, 
Canada, and Central America. It changes the name of the Agreement to 
the Tricon/Hanjin Agreement and replaces and supersedes Agreements No. 
232-011475 (the Hanjin/Tricon Agreement) and 232-011501 (the Hanjin/
Tricon Panama Agreement).

    Agreement No.: 207-011586-001.
    Title: Transroll Navegacao, S.A./NPR Holding Corp. Joint Venture 
Agreement.
    Parties:

    Transroll Navegacao, S.A.
    NPR Holding Corporation

    Synopsis: The proposed Agreement reflects Transroll Navegacao's 
assignment of its rights and obligations under the Agreement to 
Transroll Maritime Services, Ltd., a newly created Liberian subsidiary.

    Agreement No.: 202-011587-001.
    Title: United States South Europe Conference.
    Parties:

    A. P. Moller-Maersk Line
    P&O Nedlloyd B.V.
    P&O Nedlloyd Limited
    Sea-Land Service, Inc.

    Synopsis: The proposed amendment would permit the parties to apply 
surcharges to service contracts at the level set in the Agreement 
tariff or at some higher level at the time the contract is signed and 
it would permit them to deviate from their tariff with regard to 
currency and bunker fuel surcharge amounts on such items.

    Agreement No.: 232-011594.
    Title: Sea-Land/Dole Space Charter Agreement.
    Parties:

    Sea-Land Service, Inc.
    Dole Ocean Liner Express

    Synopsis: The proposed Agreement permits the parties to charter 
space to each other, and to engage in related activities, including 
providing terminal services to each other, interchanging containers and 
related equipment, and agreeing on sailing schedules, in the trade 
between United States Atlantic and Gulf ports and ports in Puerto Rico, 
and U.S inland and coastal points served via such ports, on the one 
hand, and, on the other hand, ports in Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, 
Nicaragua, and El Salvador, and inland and coastal points via such 
ports.

    Agreement No.: 224-201041.
    Title: Port of New Orleans/International Shipholding Corp. Terminal 
Agreement.
    Parties:

    Port of New Orleans
    International Shipholding Corporation

    Synopsis: The proposed Agreement establishes dockage rates for LASH 
mother vessels owned and/or operated by Waterman Steamship Corporation, 
Central Gulf Lines, Inc., and Forest Lines, Inc. The term of the 
Agreement continues until September 30, 1998. This Agreement supersedes 
Agreement No. 224-200852.

    Dated: November 20, 1997.

    By Order of the Federal Maritime Commission.
Joseph C. Polking,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-30908 Filed 11-24-97; 8:45 am]
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