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Great Lakes Ports May Handle Preference Cargoes Under Program
Great Lakes ports now have a better opportunity to compete for government-generated agricultural commodity cargoes, MarAd's Albert J.
Herberger announced today. "Our new trial program will help Great Lakes ports compete for additional cargoes they would not otherwise be eligible to receive," Adm. Herberger said. "This is good for the region, and good for the country." For both economic and defense reasons, cargo preference laws help maintain U.S.-flag merchant shipping by requiring the use of U.S.-flag vessels for a portion of the cargoes generated by the government.
Great Lakes ports have not been able to handle preference cargoes because there currently are no U.S.-flag shipping services out of the Lakes to overseas destinations, Adm. Herberger said.
During the ongoing shipping season, MarAd will allow agricultural commodity preference cargoes to be loaded initially on foreign-flag vessels at U.S. Great Lakes ports for the trip along the St.
Lawrence Seaway. The cargoes will then be transferred to U.S.-flag ships for the ocean portion of the trip to foreign destinations.
MarAd is implementing the trial period by publishing amendments in the Federal Register to its cargo preference regulations. The trial period will remain in effect this year for as long as the St. Lawrence Seaway System is open.
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Content
- Clipper III: A Case Study In Monitoring Systems page: 74B
- Permea Maritime Finishing Membrane Nitrogen Generator For Offshore page: 6
- 1969 Tonnage Convent HI Now Fully Operative page: 7
- USCG Announces Mandatory Registration of EPIRBs page: 8
- Vessel Financing In The '90s page: 11
- Dredging Feasibility Study For Jacksonville Harbor page: 13
- ILU Reports A Disappointing First Half of '94 page: 15
- CRIS: An Affordable, High-Risk Insurance Solution page: 17
- Colvic Craft Delivers 12 Of 44 Patrol Vessels To G r e e k Coastguard page: 18
- Bay Fabrication Lengthens OSV Ensco Endeavor page: 18
- Cutters Become First N . A . Surface Ships To Reach N o r t h Pole page: 18
- Designs for the 21st century page: 20
- Tuna war and subsidy accusations add to fishing industry woes page: 21
- Maximum Vessel Length To Transit Seaway Is Increased page: 23
- Gladding-Hearn Delivers High-Speed Cat To Maine Whale Watch Co. page: 24
- Elliott Bay Design Group Performs Finite Element Analysis For Arco page: 24
- State Of The German Shipbuilding Industry page: 27
- SMM '94 Product Showcase page: 28
- Blohm + Voss Shortens Sea-Land Ships, Gels QE2 page: 28
- Meyer Werft: The New Old Yard page: 30
- The German Maritime Industry page: 30
- HDW's Shipyard 2000 Plan In Full Swing page: 31
- Lindenau: Developments On The Containership, Tanker Fronts page: 32
- HydroComp, HSVA GmbH Announce Alliance page: 37
- MWH To Focus On Service As Well As Products page: 37
- SMM '94 page: 38
- Unger Named President Of Raytheon Marine Company page: 40
- Lykes Bros. Announces Organizational Changes page: 42
- Textron M&LS President Honored By Navy League page: 42
- Garrow Retires From Newport News page: 42
- Ingalls Christens Aegis Stethem, Commissions Aegis Stout page: 45
- Renewing Engine Monitoring Systems In Old Ships Saves Money page: 45
- Predicting Thermochemical Performance Of Materials Made Easier By NIST page: 46
- MES Completes Natural Gas-Fired High Efficiency Large Low-Speed Diesel Demonstation Plant page: 46
- Global Ocean Carriers Considers U.S. Yards, Title XI For Fleet Expansion page: 46
- N.E. Waterborne Gaming Conference & Exposition page: 47
- Casino Vessel Market Roots Spread To N.E. page: 47
- House Approves $ 1.35 Billion For Maritime Reform page: 48
- Trinity Wins $120-Million Contract For Two Vessels page: 48
- M T W Delivers Containership, Westerdeich page: 55
- Larger Vessels — Good Or Bad For The Liner Industry? page: 56
- Propulsion Machinery Review page: 58
- Newport News Pursues The Electric Drive page: 72
- GE LM2500+: Packing A More Powerful Punch page: 74
- Stolt Selects MMS' FleetWORKS For Tankers, Houston Office page: 77
- COMSAT President To Deliver Keynote Address At Satellite Communications Users Conference page: 78
- Sonsub Awarded Contracts From McDermott, Texaco page: 78
- Thor Dahl Shipping Expands To South Pacific page: 79
- SCN Container Line Linking South Florida, 12 Latin American Countries page: 79
- Fish Expo '94 - Boston page: 80
- Raytheon Subsidiary Teams With Scottish Firm On Undersea Project page: 81
- Navatek II Features Unique Fixed Stabilizer With Split Rudder System page: 83
- Keels & Appendixes page: 83
- Tanker Escorts, COFRs Fill OPA 90 Agenda page: 84
- VTS Participation Becomes Mandatory page: 86
- DGPS Given Go-Ahead In Northwest page: 87
- CSI: Offering Systems For Compliance With U.S. Coast Guard Requirements page: 90
- Hyde Products Offers Full Spill Response Line page: 90
- Annual Certification Of Alaska Advisory Group page: 90
- MarAd Gives Go-Ahead To Extend Cherry Valley's Subsidizable Life page: 91
- MarAd Expands Electronic Bulletin Board page: 92
- MarAd Receives Section 9 Applications page: 92
- Great Lakes Ports May Handle Preference Cargoes Under Program page: 92
- MarAd Approves Section 9 Requests page: 92
- Research Report — Shipboard Piloting Expert System — N o w Available page: 93
- NRC's Vikoma-Built Skimmer Proves Valuable In Oil Spill Cleanup page: 94
- Union Noval de Levante Launches Advanced-Technology Asphalt Carrier page: 94
- Bender Completes Riverboat To Operate In Bossier City, La. page: 94
- MarAd OKs APL Section 804(a) Waiver Request page: 96
- MarAd Issues Order Regarding Seabulk America page: 97
- THE WORLD ORDERBOOK page: 98
- Marco Designs N e w Class Of Combination Vessels page: 99
- Variable Draft SWATH DSV To Be Constructed page: 100
- Norshipco: Striving To Strike A Military & Commercial Balance page: 101
- Two Promotions At Midland Manufacturing; Increased Focus On Marine Market page: 106
- Alfa Laval Tapped For New Ships page: 106
- Nautronix To Supply DP System For USCG WLB page: 107
- Astilleros Espanoles' Puerto Real Yard Preps Shuttle Tanker For Delivery page: 108