Federal Maritime Commission asks carriers to provide compliance plans to the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022

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Written By Jennifer Joslyn

The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) is an independent U.S. government agency that regulates ocean-borne transportation in the foreign commerce of the United States. The FMC's main functions are to ensure that the shipping industry operates in a fair, efficient, and reliable manner, and to protect the interests of consumers. Being responsible for regulating the activities of ocean common carriers, marine terminal operators, and ocean transportation intermediaries, the FMC is asking the top twenty shipping lines that interact with United States ports to explain their plans to adhere to the latest wave of regulations.

The regulations in question are laid out in the recently passed Ocean Reform Act of 2022. Shipping lines will now be required to prohibit retaliatory and discriminatory behavior, and employees will be held accountable to the law. As explained by FMC Chairman Daniel B. Maffei, a shipper that logs a complaint against an ocean carrier cannot be discriminated against: no excuses.

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