Full Volume 19 - Federal Maritime Commission

FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION
SPECIAL DoCKET No 471
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PACIFIC WESTBOUND CONFERENCE
Adopted May 27 1976
Application for permission to refund a portion of the freight charges granted
INITIAL DECISION OF JOHN E COGRAVE ADMINISTRATIVE
LAW JUDGE 1
The Pacific Westbound Conference PWC has applied for permission
to refund to Phillips Petroleum Company a portion of the freight charges
on a shipment of fifty cylinders of Liquified Petroleum Gas weighing
18 800 pounds and measuring 550 cubic feet Under bill of lading dated
March 2 1975 the M S Queensville of Barber Blue Sea Lines carried
the shipment from Los Angeles to Hong Kong
The rate applicllble at the time of shipment was 239 00 WM 2 000
pounds or 40 cubic feet based on Item 340 0000 03 Pacific Westbound
Overland Tariff No 6F M C 13 The rate sought to be applied is 87 75
W M based on Item 341 104 36 Pacific Coast Westbound Local Tariff
No 4F M C 12 The aggregate freight charges collected were 3 286 25
The aggregate freight charges sought to be applied are 1 206 56 The
requested refund is 2 079 69 In support of the aPplied for permission to
refund the monies applicant states
Under the Pacific Westbound Conference Local Tariff 3 FMC s up to anuary IS
1975 there was a commodity item 2575 in the tariff readitig PETROLEUM GAs
LIQUID BUTANE FUEL PRESSURING LIQUID PROPANE at the rate of 87 75
per 2000 or 40 Cft whichever produces the greater revenue W M Under Rule 24
covering Dangerous or Hazardous Cargo there was provision to except frQmthe
Dangerous and Hazardous Cargo rate per Item 695 cases in which specific commodity
rates were provided in individual commodity items or by authorized interpretation in the
tariff index Although the commodity in question Liquified Petroleum Gas must be
stowed on deck only per Code of Federal Regulations Title 46 this commodity was
excepted from the Dangerous and Hazardous Cargo rate Item 695 inasmuch as there
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This decision became the decision ofthe Commission May 27 1976
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