Industry Report: Domestic transportation |
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air cargo carriers air cargo service Air Cargo Survey air carriers air freight forwarding air transportation airlines airport American Atlantic average barrels carried carriers reporting cars cents certificated charges charter Chicago Class Class I railroads coal commodities common carriers companies competition costs crude oil delivery service Docket domestic economic equipment expense exports express rates factors fares fleet foreign freight rates grain handling increase indicated industry intercity Interstate Commerce Commission lake freighters Lakes length of haul load Maritime Commission miles million Montreal motor carriers movement nonscheduled air operations passenger percent period petroleum pick-up and delivery pipe lines planes points Port Colborne ports pounds prewar rail railroads Railway Express Railway Express Agency reduced revenue routes Seaway shippers short tons Source speed Statistics Table tankers tariffs ton-miles tonnage tons trade truck U. S. Maritime Commission United vessels volume York
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Page 54 - That the provisions of this Act shall apply to any corporation or any person or persons engaged in the transportation of oil or other commodity, except water and except natural or artificial gas, by means of pipe lines...
Page 19 - private carrier of property by motor vehicle' means any person not included in the terms 'common carrier by motor vehicle' or 'contract carrier by motor vehicle', who or which transports In interstate or foreign commerce by motor vehicle property of which such person is the owner, lessee, or bailee, when such transportation is for the purpose of sale, lease, rent, or bailment, or in furtherance of any commercial enterprise.
Page 82 - ... shipments of such property, and performs or provides for the performance of break-bulk and distributing operations with respect to such consolidated shipments, and (B) assumes responsibility for the transportation of such property from point of receipt to point of destination, and (C) utilizes, for the whole or any part of the transportation of such shipments, the services of a carrier or carriers subject to part I, II, or III of this Act.
Page 82 - ... in the ordinary and usual course of its undertaking, (A) assembles and consolidates or provides for assembling and consolidating shipments of such property, and performs or provides for the performance of break-bulk and distributing operations with respect to such consolidated shipments...
Page 54 - ... who shall be considered and held to be common carriers within the meaning and purpose of this Act...
Page 82 - Any person which. . ..holds itself out to the general public to transport or provide transportation of property, or any class or classes of property, for compensation, in interstate commerce, and which, in the ordinary and usual course of its undertaking, (a) assemble...
Page 88 - The prospective commerce for the improved waterway was based on a series of market studies carried out by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research of the University of Miami.
Page 44 - St. St. Louis 1, Mo., 107 New Federal Bldg. Salt Lake City 1, Utah, 321 Atlas Bldg. San Antonio 5, Tex., 101 Transit Tower Bldg.
Page 44 - New Haven 10, Conn., 152 Temple St. New Orleans 12, La., 333 St. Charles Ave. New York 1, NY, Empire State Bldg., 60lh Floor.
Page 45 - Europe from 1950-55 of somewhere around 20 million tons. It is not possible to estimate with any degree of precision the export volume following 1955, due to the number of unpredictable elements in the situation The degree to which grain will be made available from eastern Europe, the success of the agricultural rehabilitation programs in western Europe, the general world economic situation, dollar balances of importing countries, and political developments are all factors affecting the flow of grain...