Full Volume 19 - Federal Maritime Commission

19 F M C
FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION
DOCKET No 7651
WEST COAST OF ITALY SICILIAN AND ADRIATIC PORTslNoRTH
ATLANTIC RANGE CONFERENCE AMENDED TARIFF RULE ESTABLISHING
AN ALLOWANCE ON PREPAID FREIGHT
Allowance of a 3 percent discount for prepaid shipments found not violative of sections
16 and 17 Shipping Act 1916
Stanley O Sher and John R Attansio for Respondent West Coast of
Italy Sicilian and Adriatic
Ports North Atlantic Range Conference
John Robert Ewers and Deana Rose as Hearing Counsel
REPORT AND ORDER
April 22 1977
By THE COMMISSION Karl E Bakke Chairman Clarence Morse Vice
Chairman Ashton C Barrett Bob Casey and James V Day
Commissioners
The Commission instituted this proceeding by Order served September
20 1976 directing the West Coast of Italy Sicilian and Adriatic Ports
North Atlantic Range Conference WINAC and its member lines to show
cause why the Commission should not find that its Tariff Rule 15 which
provides for a 3 percent allowance discount on prepaid freight is
violative of sections 16 First and 17 of the Shipping Act 1916 and
accordingly why such tariff rule should not be ordered stricken from the
Conference tariff Respondent ftled memoranda of law and an affidavit of
fact Hearing Counsel who opposed the 3 percent allowance filed a
memorandum
of law 1
POSITIONS OF THE PARTIES
In its memoranda of law and upon the affidavit of G Ravera the
Conference Secretary WINAC argues that the discount is necessitated
by a 30day time difference in collecting the freight due between prepaid
and collect shipments In this regard it is pointed out that when freight is
I Because we believe that oral argument would serve no useful purpose in this proceeding the parties request for
oral argument is denied
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