Federal Barge Lines: Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 2 of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, First Session, Pursuant to H. Res. 18, Volume 1Investigates advantages and disadvantages of continuing Federal Barge Lines vis a vis selling them to private industry. Apr. 22 hearing was held in Chicago, Ill.; Apr. 25, 26 hearings were held in Omaha, Nebr.; Apr. 28 hearing was held in New Orleans, La.; Apr. 30 hearing was held in Memphis, Tenn.; May 1, 2 hearings were held in St. Louis, Mo. |
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Page 40 - Congress to promote, encourage, and develop water transportation, service, and facilities in connection with the commerce of the United States, and to foster and preserve, in full .vigor. both rail and water transportation.
Page 567 - Commission shall have, and it is hereby given, authority, either upon complaint or upon its own initiative without complaint, at once, and if it so orders without answer or other formal pleading by the interested carrier or carriers, but upon reasonable notice...
Page 228 - ... to investigate any other matter that may tend to promote and encourage the use by vessels of ports adequate to care for the freight which would naturally pass through such ports...
Page 478 - ... complaint, establish through routes, joint classifications, and joint rates, fares, or charges, applicable to the transportation of passengers or property by common carriers by water, or by such carriers and carriers by railroad, or the maxima or minima, or maxima and minima, to be charged, and the divisions of such rates, fares, or charges as hereinafter provided, and the terms and conditions under which such through routes shall be operated.
Page 4 - That for the purpose of carrying on the operations of the Government-owned inland, canal, and coastwise waterways system to the point where the system can be transferred to private operation to the best advantage of the Government...
Page 565 - Michigan : the southern classification which governs generally in the territory south of the Ohio and Potomac rivers and east of the Mississippi River...
Page 40 - ... transportation. It shall also be the province and duty of the Secretary of War to compile, publish, and distribute, from time to time, such useful statistics, data, and information concerning transportation on inland waterways as he may deem to be of value to the commercial interests of the country. Tbe w'ords, "inland waterway," as used in this section shall be construed to include the Great Lakes.
Page 572 - It has declared in unmistakable terms that the 'inherent advantage' of the lower cost of barge carriage as compared with that of railroads must be passed on to those who ship by barge. It is therefore not within the province of the Commission to adjust rates, either to equalize the transportation cost of barge shippers with that of shippers who do not have access to barge service or to protect the traffic of railroads from barge competition. For Congress left the Commission no discretionary power...
Page 228 - ... expeditious and economical transfer or interchange of passengers or property between carriers by water and carriers by rail...
Page 228 - ... carriers by rail; to advise with communities, cities, and towns regarding the appropriate location of such terminals, and to cooperate with them in the preparation of plans for suitable terminal facilities; to investigate the existing status of water transportation upon the different inland waterways of the country, with a view to determining whether such waterways are being utilized to the extent of their capacity, and to what extent they are meeting the demands of traffic, and whether the water...