---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 41101"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "41101"
heading: "Joint ventures and consortiums"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/41101"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Regulation of Ocean Shipping"
  - "Part A — Ocean Shipping"
  - "Chapter 411 — Prohibitions and Penalties"
---

# §41101. Joint ventures and consortiums


In this chapter, a joint venture or consortium of two or more [common carriers](/usc/46/40102.md?p=7) operating as a single entity is deemed to be a single [common carrier](/usc/46/40102.md?p=7).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–304, § 7, Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1540.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 41101 | 46 App.:1709(e). | Pub. L. 98–237, § 10(e), Mar. 20, 1984, 98 Stat. 80. |