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of service, rates, rules and tariffs; and (3) practices in connection 
with the receipt and delivery of cargo including interchange with 
connecting land carriers. 
As stated in the body of the agreement, the reason for this exchange 
of information is: 
“.. . to explore whether some rationalization of common carrier 
services and the evolvement of uniform or agreed rules, practices 
and procedures are desirable .. .” 
MEMBER LINES OF AGREEMENT NO. 9981 
American Export Lines, Inc., American President Lines, Ltd., 
Barber-Blue Sea Line, Far Eastern Shipping Company, Japan 
Line, Ltd., Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd., Knutsen Line, Korea 
Shipping Corporation, Lykes Bros. Steamship Company, Inc., 
Maersk Line, Maritime Company of the Philippines, Mitsui O.S.K. 
Lines, Ltd., Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Orient Overseas Line, Inc., 
Pacific Far East Line, Inc., Phoenix Container Liners, Ltd., Sea- 
Land Service, Inc., Seatrain Lines, Inc., Showa Shipping Com- 
pany, Ltd., States Steamship Company, Ltd., United States Lines, 
Inc., Yamashita-Shinnihon Line, and Zim Israel Navigation Com- 
pany, Ltd. 
AGREEMENT NO. 10143 
The subject agreement was filed with the Commission on October 
7, 1974 and is still pending. Agreement No. 10143, among non- 
conference carriers, Orient Overseas Line/Orient Overseas Container 
Line (Joint Service Agreement No. 10037), Far Eastern Shipping 
Company and Seatrain International, S.A., operating in the trade from 
ports in Japan and Korea to Pacific Coast ports of the United States, 
covers an arrangement whereby the parties may confer and discuss, 
(but without authority to agree) on rates, charges, classifications, prac- 
tices and tariff matters to be charged or observed by those in the 
trade. (The Trans-Pacific Freight Conference of Japan/Korea, Agree- 
ment No. 150 as amended, is the conference operating in the trade 
covered by Agreement No. 10143). The Trans-Pacific Freight Con- 
ference of Japan/Korea protested the approval of the subject agree- 
ment on November 15, 1974 and requested that a hearing be held. 
In April 1975, counsel for the parties concerned requested that the 
Commission staff withhold action on the agreement in order to afford 
the parties sufficient time to consider withdrawal of their agreement 
in favor of a new type of agreement. The staff contacted counsel 
for the parties on August 5, 1975 to determine whether a decision 
in the matter had been reached. Counsel advises that the parties 
may withdraw the agreement, however, no final decision has as yet 
been made. ; 
AGREEMENT NO. 10167 
The subject agreement was filed with the Commission on July 3, 
1975. Agreement No. 10167, between the Far Eastern Shipping Com- 
pany and Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., covers an arrangement 
whereby FESCO appoints Lykes to act as its agent to solicit and 
book cargo and perform related activities at all U.S. Gulf ports under 
