A bill to amend the Shipping Act, 1916, in order to facilitate intermodal transportation and for other purposes.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] States that the term 'intermodal carrier' means a common carrier by water, a common carrier certificated under parts I, II, and III of the Interstate Commerce Act or a direct air carrier subject to the Federal Aviation Act, holding itself out as a common carrier to provide through intermodal transportation of property, part of which involves the foreign or domestic offshore waterborne commerce of the United States and part of which involves movements outside of or within the United States, including intercoastal or coastwise water transportation or transportation on the Great Lakes, or transportation within a territory, a district, a possession, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which carrier does one or more of the following: (1) quotes rates for an intermodal service over a through route, (2) assumes responsibility for the through transportation of such property from place of receipt to place of delivery, (3) utilizes for a portion of the transportation its own facilities and instrumentalities and for a portion of the transportation the underlying facilities and instrumentalities of another common carrier or other common carriers by water, or certificated under parts I, II, or …