Opinion ID: 348607
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Heading: Prior ICC Position on Joint Through Rates

Text: 22 Prior to 1908, carriers regulated by the ICC and unregulated ocean carriers created through routes and through rates in the form of joint through rates agreed upon by the carriers and in the form of combinations of proportional rates. 16 In its 1908 decision in Cosmopolitan Shipping Co. v. Hamburg-American Packet Co., 17 the Commission adopted a policy that, since ocean carriers were unregulated, inland domestic carriers would not be permitted to file joint through rates with ocean carriers. After this 1908 decision, through rates continued in the form of combinations of proportional rates. Despite the subsequent enactment of the Shipping Act of 1916, 18 which subjected ocean carriers to government regulation, the ICC continued to apply its policy of not permitting the filing of joint through rate tariffs. Instead, the inland and ocean carriers filed their respective proportional rates with the ICC and the FMC. Such intermodal proportional through rates have long been upheld as lawful. 19