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Office of Agreements

Director
Ronald Podlaskowich

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.