Source: Don Jenkins, CAPITAL PRESS, 3/22/22


The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on Tuesday passed legislation to give the Federal Maritime Commission more muscle to lean on foreign shipping companies to export U.S. farm goods. The bipartisan Ocean Shipping Reform Act directs the commission to bar shippers from “unreasonably declining” to haul agricultural products. The commission would have to write a rule defining “unreasonable.”

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