Regulator wants more ‘enforcement capacity’ against container lines
FMC chairman seeks budget increase to help enforce demurrage and detention rules Maffei asked Congress to up funding for enforcement. (Photo: LinkedIn/Jim Allen/FreightWaves)
The Federal Maritime Commission asked lawmakers to boost its budget to help enforce Shipping Act regulations governing detention and demurrage practices as the agency intensifies its oversight of container lines.
Testifying on his agency’s FY2022 budget before the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee on Wednesday, FMC Chairman Daniel Maffei said it is seeking $30.8 million $1 million more than authorized for FY2021 to bolster resources dedicated to the agency’s Bureau of Enforcement and Office of Consumer Affairs and Dispute Resolution Services. The money would fund a new export advocate position for a person solely responsible for helping export shippers move cargo.
Published July 22, 2021, 8:00 AM
New public sector investments in national infrastructure call for the private sector to commit to design with licensed, cyber secure software – and shed decades old habit of using unlicensed software products.
BSA The Software Alliance (BSA) is planning to conduct outreach to 20,000 engineering and design firms across the Southeast Asia region, including 5,000 private sector engineering and design firms in the Philippines as part of its campaign to fight the use of unlicensed software in the private sector.
Working with software company Autodesk, Inc., BSA is also targeting 5,000 firms in Indonesia, 5,000 firms in Malaysia and 5,000 firms in Thailand. While the firms are primarily engineering and design firms, there are also other companies on the list, including manufacturing companies and animation
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Now, consumer advocates are working to crack down on these pesky calls even more.
Thanks to a rule in place by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), large telephone providers are implementing software called STIR/SHAKEN to block illegal robocalls before they reach the consumer.
The deadline for large telephone providers to begin using the technology was June 30, with full implementation by September 30. It makes it to where that telephone provider can tell whether or not a call is coming through that wouldn t go through that line normally, said Carri Grube Lybarker, Administrator and Consumer Advocate for the South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs (SCDCA). Some people may have noticed on their cell phones that their provider would put Spam Call to identify it if it was potentially setting off some triggers that it would be a robocall.
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