§50103. Determinations of essential services — Inbound Citations

Citations to 46 U.S.C. § 50103 as a whole

• 46 U.S.C. § 57105(a)(1)

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  (1) the Secretary considers the vessel necessary to establish, maintain, improve, or serve as a replacement on an essential service, route, or line in the foreign commerce of the United States, as determined under section 50103 of this title;
• 46 U.S.C. § 57531(a)

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  (a) If the Secretary of Transportation finds that a trade route determined to be essential under section 50103 of this title cannot be successfully developed and maintained and the Secretary’s replacement program cannot be achieved under private operation of the trade route by a citizen of the United States with vessels documented under chapter 121 of this title, without further aid by the United States Government in addition to the financial aid authorized under title V of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, the Secretary, without advertisement or competition, may—

  (1) have constructed, in private shipyards or in navy yards, vessels of the types necessary for the trade route; and

  (2) demise charter those new vessels to the operator of vessels of the United States established on the trade route.