...supplemented by efficient facilities for shipbuilding and ship repair. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to foster the development...encourage the maintenance of such a merchant marine." Sec. 101,46 USC § 1101. In particular Congress determined in the 1970 amendment of the Merchant Marine...

...to impose such a condition and overruled the Administrative Law Judge on this point. Citing its duty to "foster the development and encourage the maintenance of such a merchant marine" (46 USC §1101), the Maritime Administration filed a petition for rehearing of Opinion 622 seeking...

...supplemented by efficient facilities for shipbuilding and ship repair. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to foster the development...encourage the maintenance of such a merchant marine. One of the brightest chapters in the recent US maritime history has been the rapid expansion of the...

...supplemented by efficient facilities for shipbuilding and ship repair. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to foster the development...encourage the maintenance of such a merchant marine. One of the brightest chapters in the recent US maritime history has been the rapid expansion of the...

...supplemented by efficient facilities for shipbuilding and ship repair. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to foster the development...encourage the maintenance of such a merchant marine. The 1936 act was premised upon a long-range shipbuilding program designed to provide 500 new ships...

...promote the merchant marine. Section 101 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, states that "it is the policy of the United States to foster the development...encourage the maintenance of such a merchant marine." In carrying out its responsibility under the 1936 Act to promote the merchant marine, the Maritime Administration...

...promote the merchant marine. Section 101 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, states that "it is the policy of the United States to foster the development...encourage the maintenance of such a merchant marine." In carrying out its responsibility under the 1030 Act to promote the merchant marine, the Maritime Administration...

...supplemented by efficient facilities for shipbuilding and ship repair. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to foster the development and encourage the maintenance of such a merchant "*A study prepared for the Maritime Administration indicated that ship construction and the operation...

...employment activities mentioned above. The preamble to the 1970 Merchant Marine Act declares It to be the policy of the United States to foster the development and encourage the maintenance of an American-flag fleet sufficient to meet the requirements of national defense and the needs of our...

...seems so clear has not always been recognized ... it is hereby declared to be the policy of the US to foster the development and encourage the maintenance of such a merchant marine." COMMENT: Such a merchant marine cannot exist without a functioning and healthy maritime community to...