Office of Agreements

The Bureau's agreement program activities consist of: (1) processing carrier and marine terminal operator agreement filings under the procedures of the Shipping Act; (2) conducting a comprehensive review and analysis of all pertinent facets of agreements to recommend appropriate action to the Commission on the disposition of filed agreements; (3) making appropriate recommendations on requests for a waiver of Information Form and Monitoring Report filing requirements; (4) maintaining the Commission's official agreement archives; and (5) maintaining an agreement database that contains pertinent information on each ocean common carrier and marine terminal operator agreement filed with the Commission.

Agreements Library

Recent Federal Register Notices

Information Form Instructions

Carrier Agreements in the U.S. Oceanborne Trades

46 CFR 535

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