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WORLD TRADE S/NGMTS/W/ 2/Add.3/Supp.1
5April 1995
ORGANIZATION(95-0846)
Original: English Negotiating Group onMaritime Transport Services
COMMUNICATION FROM JAPAN
Supplementary Information ontheJapanese Response totheQuestionnaire
onMaritime Transport Services
Supplement
Withreference todocument S/NGMTS/W/2/Add.3, thefollowing supplementary information
iscirculated attherequest ofJapan tomembers oftheNegotiating Group onMaritime Transport
Services.
I. Market Structure
1. Asofmid1993, there are37Japanese flagcontainer vessels andtheir totalvolume is
approximately 1,403,000 DWT. However, dataonforeign flagcontainer vessels isnotavailable, since
available statistics onforeign flagvessels doesnotdistinguish container vessels from other vessels.
2. Permissions granted under theprovisions ofthePortTransportation Business Law
Intherecent fivefiscal years, i.e.,theperiod fromApril 1989toMarch 1994, 84applications
were filedandallofthem were granted permission under theprovisions ofthePortTransportation
Business Law.
3. TheHarbour Management Fund
TheHarbour Management Fund isaprivate fundwhich wasestablished inOctober 1989under
agreements between theJapan Harbour Transportation Association andJapanese orforeign carriers
associations tomodernize andstabilize harbour transport businesses.
Until March 1992, when thesaidagreements wereterminated, contributions hadbeenmade
totheFund byJapanese andforeign carriers based onthevolumes ofcargoes which were handled
atports andcarried bynewtypes ofcargo vessels suchascontainer vessels.
Thisscheme wasbased ontheagreements among those private entities andtheagreements
were notsubject toanygovernmental regulation orintervention.
4. "Grain Importing Council"
Japanese Government isnotaware ofanorganization called "Grain Importing Council".
However, there isanorganization called the"Grain Imports Association", which isapurely private
entity consisting oftrading companies importing foodtoJapan.
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5. Bilateral Agreements
Japanhasnearly40bilateralagreementscontainingshippingclausessuchasfriendship,commerce
andnavigation treaties withtheU.S., theU.K., France, Germany andsoon.Most ofthese treaties
provide forfreeentry ofcargo vessels ofoneparty toallports oftheother party, which areopento
foreign commerce andnavigation. These treaties alsoaccord MFN treatment and/or national treatment
tosuchvessels withrespect totherights tocarry cargoes toorfrom those ports oftheother party.
None ofthese treaties haveprovisions forcargo sharing orlinerconference arrangements.
6. Open linerconferences
Open linerconferences, mainly between Japan andtheU.S., account forapproximately 10n
percentofthetotalnumber ofthelinerconferences ofJapan.
7. Loyalty arrangements
Approximately 50percentofthelinerconferences ofJapan haveloyalty arrangements.