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FMC diversion study focuses on harbor tax

Friday, July 27, 2012

The Federal Maritime Commission released its report on the diversion of containerized cargo through ports in Canada and Mexico on Friday, identifying the U.S. Harbor Maintenance Tax (HMT) as a factor in increased use of foreign ports for cargo bound for U.S. inland destinations. FMC Chairman Richard A. Lidinsky, Jr. said the report concludes that there is no legal impediment to carriers and shippers moving their cargo through those ports and presents Congress “with a list of curren...

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