FMC Seeks Comments on Proposals in NVOCC Rulemaking

The Federal Maritime Commission asked for further additional public comments on the agency's revisions to a proposed rulemaking on service contracts and non-vessel operating common carrier service arrangements, it said (here). The FMC now proposes to "allow the filing of sequential service contract amendments in the SERVCON system within 30 days of the effective date of the agreement reached between the shipper and carrier," it said. The agency also requested comments on "whether the current 48-hour period in which to file a [Corrected Transmission] after filing the original contract or amendment should be extended to thirty (30) days to afford carriers with a more realistic time frame to correct purely technical data transmission errors." Comments are due Sept. 23.