Cruise Ship Industry: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Merchant Marine for the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, on Foreign-flag Cruise Ship Industry, April 10, 1985; U.S.-flag Cruise Ship Industry, May 7, 1985; Security of Ports and Vessels, October 22, 1985 |
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Page 231 - To provide machinery for co-operation among Governments in the field of governmental regulation and practices relating to technical matters of all kinds affecting shipping engaged in international trade, and to encourage the general adoption of the highest practicable standards in matters concerning maritime safety and efficiency of navigation...
Page 230 - The 1971 Montreal Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation; The...
Page 229 - Klinghoffer, by terrorists, while being held hostage aboard the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro earlier this month. The Achille Lauro incident was part of an alarming pattern of increasing terrorism directed against innocent victims held hostage by extremist groups. There is a high degree of international concern over such terrorism, and hostage-taking in particular. At the time of the Achille Lauro incident the United Nations Security Council unanimously condemned, ". . . this unjustifiable and...
Page 62 - The Surgeon General, with the approval of the Secretary is authorized to make and enforce such regulations as in his judgment are necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the States or possessions, or from one State or possession into any other State or possession.
Page 67 - Sea, 1974; -the Protocol of 1978 relating to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974...
Page 68 - Each berth shall be fitted with a spring bottom or a spring mattress and with a mattress of approved material. Stuffing of straw or other material likely to harbour vermin shall not be used.
Page 67 - These laws or regulations shall require— (a) the provision of food and water supplies which, having regard to the size of the crew and the duration and nature of the voyage, are suitable in respect of quantity, nutritive value, quality and variety...
Page 67 - All spaces and equipment for the storage and handling of food and water, and the galley and other equipment for the preparation and service of meals, shall be maintained in such a manner as to permit the service of proper meals to the members of the crew.
Page 135 - Act, the tax policy, the one area that we feel could be in question would be the funding; but the point that I am trying to make is that we are happy with things as they are as status quo.
Page 231 - Organisation's objective is to facilitate co-operation among governments in technical matters of all kinds affecting shipping, in order to achieve the highest practicable standards of maritime safety and efficiency in navigation.