To Repeal the Inland Waterways Corporation Act: Hearing Before the Surface Transportation Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session, on S. 1031. April 22, 1963U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963 - 24 pages |
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$9 million 141 of title A. C. INGERSOLL AESS ARY OF CONGRESS barge transportation bargeline bargeload BARTON bill to repeal Chairman changes class I railroad Committee on Commerce common carrier service competitive CONGRESS ARY CONGRESS LIBRARY CONGRESS RESS CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contract of sale Department of Commerce enactment Federal Barge Lines freight Government operation Inland Waterways Corporation interest Interstate Commerce Commission less than barge less-than-bargeload service LEVIN LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS liquidation Louis MAGNUSON manner substantially similar ment Mississippi River system Missouri Rivers NGRES number of trips payment percent port of St present rail railroad repeal the Inland return designated Secretary of Commerce section 153 Senator HARTKE service rendered service requirements shippers sold statute tariffs tion title 49 ton-mile tows transportation facilities trips per annum U.S. Senate United States Code VANCE HARTKE WARREN G Washington water transportation Waterways Corporation Act
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Page 13 - Chief, Inland and Coastwise Waterways Service, Washington, DC: We are in very great difficulty owing to channel. Our month's results are already blasted and we cannot escape showing a loss, as the present prospects are that we will not get any more tows into New Orleans before the end of the month, and we have only succeeded in getting through 18 barges thus far. Iowa, Illinois, and Nokomis have been struggling to get freight through from St. Louis to Cairo since the 18th and not a single barge has...
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Page 13 - The Committee believes . . . that if this bill becomes a law the Government can and will within the next five years demonstrate not only the practicability of water transportation, but the great advantage and economy to shippers, and the profitable results that will reward private capital invested in transportation facilities on our rivers. And when that time comes, it is the judgment of the Committee that the Government can dispose of its properties to private capital to an advantage and withdraw...
Page 6 - This operation was not successful, not, we are convinced, because of a lack of effort or expenditure on the part of the purchaser but rather because the business was simply not there. The less-than-bargeload carriage business has dropped off. The purchaser has, wisely, persuaded most of such shippers who still use the service to increase their use of the lines to the point of shipping in bargeload lots, which is beneficial to the shipper and the carrier. Concern on the part of the purchaser, based...
Page 6 - ... no longer reflect changed conditions prevalent along the inland waterways served by the corporation. With respect to the two major requirements described above, it is contended that the increased size of tows made possible by the more powerful propulsion vessels developed by the purchaser makes the trip requirements out of date. With respect to the less-than-bargeload carriage, a service which was costly and not self-supporting, the purchaser undertook immediately to increase this aspect of the...
Page 17 - ... unload the barge. The rate schedules offering less-than-bargeload service to the shipping public are contained in 45 separate tariffs published by the Federal Barge Lines (not counting tariffs published by connecting rail carriers to which Federal Barge Lines is a party) . These tariffs, which only moved 459 tons of freight last year, weigh 95 pounds. The 'Commission has been lenient in not requiring us to update them as frequently as is the customary rule ; conservatively estimated, it would...