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the American Waterways Operators asks the legislators to place a brake to the contractual superpower of the great alliances of the shipping
the association exhorts to prevent that they can collectively deal and sign contracts with the operators Americans
May 5, 2017
The American Waterways Operators (AWO), the American association that 350 marine and harbour societies of towing represent and companies that services of inland navigation operate, has denounced that the contractual superpower of the great international shipowning alliances strongly has an impact negative on the field of the harbor tug American.
In a audition written introduced Wednesday to the Subcommittee on Guard Costiera and the marine transport of the Committee on the Transports and the infrastructures of the House of representative, the president and managing director of the AWO, Thomas Allegretti, it has emphasized that if to the alliances between the foreign companies of navigation will be allowed of dealing and signing contracts with the operators collectively Americans of the field, than they do not have the ability to oppose itself promuovendo sets in action collective, this will constitute a "threat to the existence" of the field of national the harbor tug.
Allegrettos have evidenced that AWO considers that such agreements violate as well as letter how much spirit of Shipping Act and have exhorted Conference, if the Federal Maritime Commission continues to allow such agreements that the AWO judges devastating for the field, to amend the law in order to forbid this type of negotiations with the national operators.
"We - he has written Allegrettos - emphasize that he is fundamentalally unjust, anti-competitive and in contrast with interests of industry marine American to alter situation balanced in favor of large conglomerates international of shipping, that they include foreign companies of state property and subjects that have paid penal fines for anti-competitive conducts, and to the expenses of American societies of towing and other national lenders of services".
"For us - it has added the representative of the AWO - it is inadmissible that an agency of the American government can allow that is penalized an indispensable American activity in favor of foreign marine alliances. The Conference - it has concluded Allegrettos - would have to act in order to heal this injustice the FMC has whereby not made it".
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The American Waterways Operators (AWO), the American association that 350 marine and harbour societies of towing represent and companies that services of inland navigation operate, has denounced that the contractual superpower of the great international shipowning alliances strongly has an impact negative on the field of the harbor tug American.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
