{"id":5537,"date":"2021-04-07T17:24:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T21:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=5537"},"modified":"2021-04-07T17:24:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T21:24:20","slug":"commission-meeting-addresses-fact-finding-29-and-alliance-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/commission-meeting-addresses-fact-finding-29-and-alliance-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission Meeting Addresses Fact Finding 29 and Alliance Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Maritime Commission met virtually and in closed session today to discuss developments in the ongoing Fact Finding 29 investigation of challenges to the freight delivery system and possible Shipping Act violations, and to receive a briefing on the agency\u2019s monitoring activities of ocean carrier alliances.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first meeting presided over by Chairman Daniel B. Maffei since being designated head of agency by President Joseph Biden last week.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Rebecca Dye, who serves as the Fact Finding Officer for Fact Finding 29, reported on developments related to her investigation into the behavior and practices of certain ocean carriers and marine terminal operators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile most participants in the supply chain are doing their best to cope with the unprecedented import boom, there are reports of container ship lines and terminal operators unfairly taking advantage of the situation or denying service to exporters in a way that may violate the Shipping Act.\u00a0 We must get to the bottom of this situation ASAP and that\u2019s why Commissioner Dye\u2019s investigation is crucial,\u201d said Chairman Maffei.\u00a0 \u201cJust yesterday, Commissioner Dye and I met with the leaders of two important House subcommittees.\u00a0 These issues clearly have their attention and companies providing ocean transportation services would be well served to voluntarily take steps that address these challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Staff from the Commission\u2019s Bureau of Trade Analysis presented an update to the Commission on overall trends of the U.S. economy and its relation to the ongoing monitoring of three ocean carrier alliance agreements (2M, OCEAN, and THE) on file at the FMC.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s meeting was held in closed session because the agenda items dealt with an ongoing investigative matter and confidential commercial information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Maritime Commission met virtually and in closed session today to discuss developments in the ongoing Fact Finding 29 investigation of challenges to the freight delivery system and possible Shipping Act violations, and to receive a briefing on the agency\u2019s monitoring activities of ocean carrier alliances. This was the... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"\/commission-meeting-addresses-fact-finding-29-and-alliance-monitoring\/\">Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5538,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions\/5538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}