HARBOR TRANSPORT BUSINESS ACT

CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1(Purpose) #

The purpose of this Act is to establish order concerning harbor transport and to promote public welfare through the sound development of harbor transport business.

[This Article Wholly Amended on May 27, 2009]

Article 2(Definitions) #

(1) The term "harbor transport" in this Act means any of the following acts that are conducted to meet another person’s needs: <Amended on Mar. 23, 2013>

1. Taking over freight transported by ship from a ship in the harbor by entrustment of a shipper or shipping service business entity or delivering freight to a shipper;

2. Taking over freight to be transported by ship from a shipper in the harbor by entrustment of a shipper or shipping service business entity or delivering freight to a ship;

3. Conducting activities, in series, referred to in subparagraphs 4 through 13 before or after an act referred to in subparagraph 1 or 2;

4. Freight loading on or unloading from a ship in the harbor;

5. Transporting freight by ship or barge in the harbor, transporting freight by barge or sailing boat between a harbor prescribed by Decree of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and a place, other than a harbor, (hereinafter referred to as "designated section"), and sailing by tugboat towing a barge or a log raft in the harbor or the designated section; provided, transport falling under any of the following items shall be excluded:

(a) Transport by a marine cargo transport service provider pursuant to the Marine Transportation Act;

(b) Transport of freight concomitant with transport of passengers by passenger ship of a marine passenger transport service provider pursuant to the Marine Transportation Act;

6. Taking freight transported by ship or barge in a warehouse or on the loading dock in the harbor (excluding a wood yard on the surface of the water; hereinafter the same shall apply);

7. Taking freight to be transported by ship or barge out of the loading dock in the harbor;

HARBOR TRANSPORT BUSINESS ACT

Article 1(Purpose) #

Article 2(Definitions) #

Article 3(Types of business) #

Article 4(Registration of business) #

Article 5(Application for registration) #

Article 6(Criteria for registration) #

Article 7(Qualification and registration of tallyman) #

Article 7-2(Sanctions for cheating in examinations) #

Article 8(Grounds for disqualification) #

Article 8-2(Prohibition on lending qualification certificates) #

Article 8-3(Revocation of qualification) #

Article 9(Cancellation of registration) #

Article 10(Freight charges and fees) #

Article 11 #

Article 12 #

Article 13 #

Article 14 #

Article 15 #

Article 16 #

Article 17 #

Article 18 #

Article 19 #

Article 20 #

Article 21 #

Article 22 #

Article 23(Succession to rights and duties) #

Article 24 #

Article 25 #

Article 26(Suspension of business and revocation of registration) #

Article 26-2(Registration of comprehensive harbor service business) #

Article 26-3(Registration of business) #

Article 26-4(Succession to rights and duties) #

Article 26-5(Revocation of registration) #

Article 26-6(Entering into terminal operating agreement) #

Article 26-7(Imposing penalty for failure to implement cargo volume plan or investment plan) #

Article 26-8(Evaluating performance of terminal operating company) #

Article 26-9(Termination of terminal operating agreement) #

Article 26-10(Use of harbor facilities by terminal operating company) #

Article 27 #

Article 27-2(Temporary business activities in unregistered harbor) #

Article 27-3(Education and training for harbor transportation workers) #

Article 27-4(Establishment of educational and training institution) #

Article 27-5(Dissemination of standard form contracts) #

Article 27-6(Penalty surcharges) #

Article 27-7(Committee for supply and demand control of harbor workers) #

Article 27-8(Committee for resolution of harbor transport disputes) #

Article 27-9(Support for harbor transport business) #

Article 28(Fees) #

Article 28-2(Reporting and inspections) #

Article 29(Delegation or entrustment of authority) #

Article 29-2(Electronic processing of civil petition affairs) #

Article 29-3(Hearings) #

Article 29-4(Legal fiction as public officials for purposes of penalty provisions) #

Article 30(Penalty provisions) #

Article 31(Penalty provisions) #

Article 32(Penalty provisions) #

Article 33(Joint penalty provisions) #

Article 34(Administrative fines) #

Article 35 #