United State MERCHANT MARINE MISCELLANEOUS PART 4 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE OF THE COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES NINETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS FIRST AND SECOND SESSIONS ON LIMITATION OF SHIPOWNER'S LIABILITY OVERSIGHT NOVEMBER 9, 1983 CDS-BUILT VESSELS INTO COASTWISE TRADE (H.R. 5071) MAY 8, 1984 CANADIAN DIVERSION (H.R. 1511) MAY 23, 1984 Serial No. 98-50 Printed for the use of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES WALTER B. JONES, North Carolina, Chairman MARIO BIAGGI, New York GLENN M. ANDERSON, California JOHN B. BREAUX, Louisiana NORMAN E. D'AMOURS, New Hampshire W. J. (BILLY) TAUZIN, Louisiana WILLIAM O. LIPINSKI, Illinois ROBERT A. BORSKI, Pennsylvania THOMAS R. CARPER, Delaware SOLOMON P. ORTIZ, Texas BRIAN J. DONNELLY,1 Massachusetts EDWIN B. FORSYTHE,3 New Jersey NORMAN F. LENT, New York ROBERT W. DAVIS, Michigan CLAUDINE SCHNEIDER, Rhode Island M464 1983d pt. 4 + Became ranking minority member of Full Committee May 9, 1984. 1-5-85 voi Gaded: be 12 CONTENTS LIMITATION OF SHIPOWNER'S LIABILITY OVERSIGHT Biaggi, Hon. Mario, chairman, Subcommittee on Merchant Marine........ McCarthy, Capt. Richard J., JAGC, U.S. Navy, Deputy Assistant, Judge Advocate General of the Navy for Admiralty (prepared statement)........ Mendelsohn, Allan I., Esq., adjunct professor, Georgetown Law School. Paulsen, Gordon, president, Maritime Law Association of the United 100 109 Statistical analysis of recent U.S. limitation of liability cases, 1953-81 The Maritime Law Association of the United States: Its purposes, Biaggi, Hon. Mario, chairman, Subcommittee on Merchant Marine........ Blackwell, Robert J., Bogle & Gates, on behalf of Falcon Tanker Group. Dean, Warren, Assistant General Counsel for International Law, Depart- 129 Goldstein, Jack, vice president, OSG Bulk Ships, Inc. 149 Hettena, Ran, president, OSG Bulk Ships, Inc., New York, on behalf of 149 12 |