Panama Canal Tolls. Hearing Before a Subcommittee ... on H.R. 1399 ... January 24, 1935 |
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... fixed at not more than 90 cents a ton , instead of $ 1 a ton as permitted in the bill . That is the maximum amount permitted by this bill . I think that everybody interested understood at the time the last bill was presented to the ...
... fixed at not more than 90 cents a ton , instead of $ 1 a ton as permitted in the bill . That is the maximum amount permitted by this bill . I think that everybody interested understood at the time the last bill was presented to the ...
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... fixed percentage of difference, and we have further indicated that the rates upon ballast vessels would be increased beyond the present relationship. And, I am sure that we would all like to know whether that removal of the limitation ...
... fixed percentage of difference, and we have further indicated that the rates upon ballast vessels would be increased beyond the present relationship. And, I am sure that we would all like to know whether that removal of the limitation ...
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... fixed at not more than 90 cents a ton , instead of $ 1 a ton as permitted in the bill . That is the maximum amount permitted by this bill . I think that everybody interested understood at the time the last bill was presented to the ...
... fixed at not more than 90 cents a ton , instead of $ 1 a ton as permitted in the bill . That is the maximum amount permitted by this bill . I think that everybody interested understood at the time the last bill was presented to the ...
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... fixed percentage of difference , and we have further indicated that the rates upon ballast vessels would be increased beyond the present relationship . And , I am sure that we would all like to know whether that re- moval of the ...
... fixed percentage of difference , and we have further indicated that the rates upon ballast vessels would be increased beyond the present relationship . And , I am sure that we would all like to know whether that re- moval of the ...
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... fixed under the Panama measurement approximately 50- percent , and proportionately less if the rate was made 90 cents . At present we are paying over $ 600,000 a year on tolls on three ships . The dollar rate would increase those tolls ...
... fixed under the Panama measurement approximately 50- percent , and proportionately less if the rate was made 90 cents . At present we are paying over $ 600,000 a year on tolls on three ships . The dollar rate would increase those tolls ...
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ADAMS American ships ballast rates BARTLEY basis bill Bureau of Navigation Canal net tonnage Canal officials capital structure Captain Petersen cargo and passenger cargo carriers cargo ships cargo spaces exempted carried charges classification of poop committee Congress costs CROTHERS deck loads Department of Commerce earning capacity enacted equivalent tonnage EWERS exclusive of deck exempted under United FARLEY forecastle Government hearing increase inequities JAMES WOLFENDEN JANUARY 24 LUCKENBACH MCCARTHY measured under Panama measurement of vessels MONAGHAN MORRISON nations Number of transits operating Pacific coast paid in ballast Panama Canal authorities Panama Canal rules Panama Canal tolls Panama Canal tonnage PARKER CORNING percent PETTENGILL President Railroad Steamship Line revenue Secretary Secretary of War shelter deck shipowner South Jersey Port statement Suez Canal tankers tonnage exclusive Tons of cargo traffic transiting the Canal transits in ballast_ United States equivalent United States registry United States rules VIRGIL CHAPMAN WOLVERTON
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Page 13 - The existence of dissimilar rules in different countries and at different canals for the measurement of vessels is illogical and results in unnecessary burdens upon shipping. Many vessels are now obliged to provide themselves with several tonnage certificates. A vessel launched in an American shipyard, for instance, will need to have, in addition to its tonnage certificate made out in accordance with the requirements of the statutes of the United States, a Panama tonnage certificate, a Suez certificate,...
Page 14 - The statistics of navigation would be rendered more simple, intelligible, and accurate. The merchant or shipowner would at once understand the size and capacity of the ships he employs or purchases ; he would also escape the annoyance and expense of remeasurement ; and, lastly, taxation, when imposed, would be rendered more simple and more just. Under these circumstances, there can be but one opinion as to the utility, if not the necessity, of some general system of measuring merchant shipping.
Page 13 - If one eyetem could be adopted by all maritime nations, so that the capacity of any given ehip, when once officially ascertained and denoted on her official papers, could be everywhere understood and recognized as valid, the advantages gained would be very great. The statistics of navigation would be rendered more simple, intelligible, and accurate. The merchant or shipowner would at once understand the size and capacity of the ships he employe or purchases; he would also escape the annoyance and...
Page 11 - In this connection. I would like to put in the record a reference to a letter from the Director of the Bureau of Navigation of th& Department of Commerce, which, if I may.