Maritime Administration Authorization: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Merchant Marine of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, on Maritime Administration Authorization for Fiscal Year 1982, March 27, 1981 |
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$92 million 50 percent accelerated depreciation activities Administration's amount Answer applications barges benefits budget building bulk carriers bulkers capability cargo CDS funds CDS rate ceiling Chairman collective bargaining commercial competitive Congress containerized containerships contract crew depreciation dry bulk economic facilities Federal financing fiscal year 1982 foreign competitors foreign flag fuel impact increase liner vessels Litton Industries major MarAd Maritime Administration maritime policy Maritime Subsidy Board merchant fleet Merchant Marine Act methanol Military Sealift Command naval shipbuilding Navy NEMIROW ODS program operating subsidy parity pollution retrofit President productivity projects proposed Question reduce replacement obligations request result Ro/Ro seamen Senator GORTON ship construction ship operators shipbuilding base shipbuilding industry tankers tion Title XI guarantees Title XI program trade U.S. flag U.S. merchant marine U.S. Navy U.S. ship U.S. shipbuilding U.S. shipyards U.S.-flag vessels United vessel construction wage yards
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Page 4 - States shall have a merchant marine (a) sufficient to carry its domestic waterborne commerce and a substantial portion of the water-borne export and import foreign commerce of the United States and to provide shipping service essential for maintaining the flow of such domestic and foreign water-borne commerce at all times...
Page 4 - It is necessary for the national defense and development of its foreign and domestic commerce that the United States shall have a merchant marine (a) sufficient to carry its domestic waterborne commerce and a substantial portion of the waterborne export and import foreign commerce of the United States...
Page 3 - I think, in the interest of keeping the record straight, perhaps we ought to include, as a part of the record, your druthers, as you refer in your testimony and the earlier hearings we held, to a broader approach to the problem, and so that doesn't...
Page 9 - Advanced ship development (— $565,000) Two projects would be eliminated involving fuel test for diesel engines and testing of a shipboard steering system. Advanced ship operations (— $235,000) Projects to study the advantages of automated bridge equipment, design standards and port studies would be reduced. Research facilities (- $775,000) Independent research projects at NMRC would begin to be phased down. Advanced maritime technology (— $925,000) Studies in market analysis would be reduced;...
Page 59 - ... agreements with equal weight to be given to changes affecting employees in the transportation industry (excluding the offshore maritime industry) and to changes affecting employees in private nonagricultural industries other than transportation.
Page 59 - ... of the vessel or vessels covered by the contract, over the estimated fair and reasonable cost of the same items of expense (after deducting therefrom any estimated increase in such items necessitated by features incorporated pursuant to the provisions of section 501 (b)) if such vessel or vessels were operated under the registry of a foreign country whose vessels are substantial competitors of the vessel or vessels covered by the contract.
Page 33 - American-flag merchant fleet capable of carrying a substantial portion of our waterborne commerce and of serving as a naval or military auxiliary in time of war or national emergency.
Page 86 - Recognize the challenges created by cargo policies of other nations. The United States has traditionally espoused free trade. However, the International shipping trade is laced with a network of foreign governmental preferences and priorities designed to strengthen foreign fleets, often at the expense of US maritime interests. We must be prepared to respond constructively for our own interests to the restrictive shipping policies of other nations.
Page 2 - US-flag and foreign-flag vessels participating in world trade, and the impact that construction subsidies have on maintaining a mobilization base. Consistent with administration commitments, the maritime policy developed will recognize fully the impact of planned increases in naval shipbuilding, ways to increase commercial participation in military support functions, and the effect that the new tax policies will have on improving the competitiveness of the US merchant marine.
Page 59 - States officers and crews and the foreign crew costs. The subsidizable wage costs would be determined by reference to the costs incurred by the operators under the collective bargaining agreements relating to officers and crews on the vessels. The collective bargaining costs would be determined by the Secretary of Commerce periodically at intervals of two to four years. In the years between ^determinations of the collective bargaining cost the subsidy payable would be based on the most recently determined...