Full Volume 19 - Federal Maritime Commission

FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION
DoCKET No 748
EUROPEAN TRADE SPECIALISTS INC AND KUNZLE TASIN
v
PRUDENTIAL GRACE LINES INC AND THE HIPAGE CO INC
Respondent Prodential Grace Lines Inc found not to have violated sections 16 and 17
of the Shipping Act 1916
Respondent The Hipage Company
Inc found not to have violated section 16 of the
Shipping Act 1916
Issue remanded for further proceedin ls with regard to aIIelled violation of section 18b
of the Shipping Act 1916 by respondent Prudential race Lines Inc
Issue remanded for further proceedinas with reprd to alleged violation of section 17 by
respondent The Hipage Company Inc
William LBorden for Complainants
John B King Jr for Respondent Th Hipage Company Inc
John H Purcell for Respondent Prudential Grace Lines Inc
REPORT AND ORDER ON REMAND
May 27 1976
By THE COMMISSION Karl E Bakke Chairman Ashton C Barrett and
James V Day Commissioners Clarence Morse Vice Chairman
concurring
PROCEEDINGS
This case arose by complaint of European Trade Specialists Inc
hereinafter on European behalfof itself as shipper and on behalf of
its consignee Kunzle Tasin hereinafter KT alleging violation of
sections of the Shipping Act 1916 the Act by
Prudential Grace
Prudential and by The Hipage Co Hipage Complainant s freight
fOIwarder The Complainant alleged in summary that Prudential had
violated sections 16 17 and 18 b of the Act and that Hipage had violated
sections 16 and 17 ofthe Act
The claim in this case results from an alleged overcharge by Prudential
Commissioner Bob Casey not particlpatlna
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