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June 17, 2022
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- The World Shipping Council implicitly accuses
the American government administration of behavior
schizophrenic
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- On the one hand, the Federal Maritime Commission absolves carriers
containerized seafarers with full formula. On the other, Washington
continues to accuse them of damaging the US economy
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If operators in the maritime transport sector
containerized have cashed in recent days the outcome to them
positive of the survey on their market carried out by the federal agency
US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), according to which in the
sector the level of competition is more than sufficient
(
of the 1st
June 2022), by the same AMERICAN government administration
instead came a new beating, at least so he has
perceived by the World Shipping Council (WSC), with the approval of
part of the US Congress of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022, which
became law with the signature signed yesterday by Joe Biden
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of 14
June 2022).-
- The new rule - said the president with satisfaction
American on the occasion of the signing of the measure - authorizes
appropriations for the FMC for the fiscal years 2022 to 2025, fixed
additional requirements for ocean carriers and prohibits them from some
practices; requires the FMC to issue rules relating to the
assessment of maritime tariffs, the prohibition of practices and
the establishment of a maritime register and, in certain cases
circumstances, authorizes the FMC to issue an emergency decree that
requires shipping carriers to share information
directly with the shippers and with the railway and
road haulage.
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- The World Shipping Council, the association representing the
main shipping companies operating in the field of
containerized maritime transport, perceived the measures taken
by the government in Washington as a further direct attack on the
category represented by the WSC. Following the signature affixed by
Joe Biden to the Ocean Shipping Reform Act, the association has issued
a note in which he denounced that "in recent weeks I have
several attempts to demonize ocean carriers have been recorded
unfolding the rhetoric of "either us or them". This -
complained the WSC - not only is it inaccurate, but dangerous given
which puts at risk the ability to understand and work for
solving the root causes of supply chain problems
American. Maritime carriers - highlighted the association -
are the longest link in the global supply chain that
provides vital goods to businesses, government and consumers
American. The supply chain - specified the World Shipping Counci
- it is not foreign, it is global".
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- "It is understandable - continues the note - that the
regulatory authorities ask questions about
current market conditions. Liner maritime transport is
a sector monitored very closely and the companies have
answered and will continue to answer these questions. But - ha
underlined the World Shipping Council also referring to the
findings of the FMC investigation - the fact is that the vectors
seafarers actively compete against each other in the market
global, including on the most important sea routes for
U.S. trade. The Federal Maritime Commission,
the U.S. regulatory expert who oversees transportation
international maritime, has just completed an investigation of
two years on the international maritime supply chain discovering that
competition between sea carriers is "sustained"
and that, if the tariffs for the maritime carriage of goods are
elevated, this is "exacerbated" by the
pandemic, from an unexpected and unprecedented increase in the spending of
consumers, particularly in the United States, and congestion
of the supply chain, and are the result of market forces
supply and demand'.
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- The World Shipping Council also pointed out that the FMC has
noted that "those responsible for competition in the Union
European, China and Federal Maritime Commission discuss
with regularity of our maritime transport markets and
to date, they have found no indication that the current
prices of liner shipping are the result of a
collusive or illegal conduct by major carriers
seafarers in our markets".
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- Referring then to President Biden's statements, according to
to which there would be only nine large shipping companies, united
in three alliances, which carry out transports from Asia to the USA, the WSC
reiterated that there are 13 other scheduled shipping companies
operating on this route to date making more than 30%
of departures from Asia to the United States. "In fact - he
specified the association - during the pandemic the competition
has increased with the entry into the market of new
companies and the share of major alliances has decreased.
Reporting verbatim part of the Federal's assessments
Maritime Commission, the WSC recalled that "the investigation of the
FMC also reports that " individual maritime carriers
within each alliance they continue to compete in a
autonomous and resolute both in relation to tariffs and practices
marketing. Individual shipping carriers within the framework of alliances
- specifies the report of the FMC - continue to add and to
withdraw ships from traffic both within and outside the
alliances in which they participate and, in particular, in trade
transpacifics, new entrants have made their entry into these
Trades. The transpacific market is very much of a
contestable'.'
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- Finally, referring to the very high level of tariffs of the
containerized maritime transport services, the WSC has taken over
that 'there is no doubt that maritime carriers, after two
decades of low or no margins and abundant capacity and
cheap for chargers, they are actually making
profits'. The association, as already highlighted in
occasion of the green light of the House of Representatives to the Ocean
Shipping Reform Act of 2022, pointed out that these profits
are invested in creating additional capacity of
transport both by sea and by land and reiterated that as long as
American land infrastructure will continue to be
congested, unable as they are to cope with the growth of
flows of goods, ships will continue to be stuck out of the
leads to the detriment of importers and exporters. 'I
maritime carriers - concludes the note of the WSC - continue to
move record volumes of goods for our nation and have
heavily invested in new capacity: America must take on
the same commitment and invest in its logistics infrastructure to
earth'.
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