By Maia Kemp-Welch (The Loadstar) – A Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) emergency order “won’t be enough” to alleviate supply chain congestion in the US, according to Frank Kenney, director of market…
https://gcaptain.com/viewpoint-fmc-emergency-order-wont-be-enough-to-alleviate-congestion/
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission is continuing to implement its to-do list from the recently enacted Ocean Shipping Reform Act. The OSRA was signed into law by President Biden in…
https://gcaptain.com/fmc-continues-to-check-off-items-on-its-ocean-shipping-reform-act-to-do-list/
As part of the new Shipping Reform Act the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) announced it’s reorganizing its enforcement structure and plans to hire more investigators to crack down on ports…
https://gcaptain.com/us-federal-maritime-commission-fmc-investigators/
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) is reporting progress in implementing requirements of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (OSRA), which President Biden signed into law in June. The…
https://gcaptain.com/fmc-reports-progress-implementing-ocean-shipping-reform-act-requirements/
By Barry Parker (gCaptain) – In the recently enacted Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (OSRA 2022 or “The Shipping Act,” for short), there is a great deal of attention…
https://gcaptain.com/ocean-shipping-reform-act-detention-and-demurrage-disconnects/
President Joe Biden yesterday signed the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (OSRA) into law. As we reported when the measure was passed, the legislation expands the authority of the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) in a number of ways.
President Biden, who in no fan of the major ocean carriers, turned his attention to them again in remarks made at the signing ceremony,
“Nine major shipping companies consolidated into three alliances control the vast majority of ocean shipping in the world and...
On Monday, the House of Representatives voted 369-42 to pass the Ocean Shipping Reform Act. The bicameral legislation – which unanimously passed the U.S. Senate in March 2022 – will now head to President Biden’s desk for final approval.
Following the Congressional vote, the president released a statement saying he looked forward to signing the bill into law. His support is no surprise – in his State of the Union Address, President Biden called on Congress to address unreasonable ocean shipping...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/viewpoint-congress-passes-ocean-shipping-reform
President Joe Biden has signed into law the S. 3580, the “Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022,” marking the first major change to federal regulations for international container shipping in…
https://gcaptain.com/president-biden-signs-the-ocean-shipping-reform-act-into-law/
U.S. President Joe Biden has signed into law the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022, the first major change to federal regulations related to the international container shipping industry in…
https://gcaptain.com/world-shipping-council-responds-to-ocean-shipping-reform-act-enactment/
By Jordan Fabian (Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden on Thursday will sign a bipartisan bill aimed at driving down costs of shipping goods overseas, a measure his administration has touted as…
https://gcaptain.com/president-biden-to-sign-ocean-shipping-reform-act-into-law-today/