---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 58105"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "58105"
heading: "Preferences for cargo in which charterer has interest"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/58105"
units:
  - "Subtitle V — Merchant Marine"
  - "Part G — Restrictions and Penalties"
  - "Chapter 581 — Restrictions and Penalties"
---

# §58105. Preferences for cargo in which charterer has interest


A [contractor](/usc/46/53101.md?p=2) receiving an operating-differential subsidy, or a charterer under [chapter 575](/usc/46/chstV/ptF/ch575.md) of this title, may not unjustly discriminate in any manner so as to give preference, directly or indirectly, to [cargo](/usc/46/53901.md?p=2) in which the [contractor](/usc/46/53101.md?p=2) or charterer has a direct or indirect ownership, purchase, or vending interest.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–304, § 8(c), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1672.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 58105 | 46 App.:1226. | June 29, 1936, ch. 858, title VIII, § 808, 49 Stat. 2015. |

The words “and whosoever shall violate this provision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor” are omitted because section 3559 of title 18 provides for the classification of offenses. See the revision notes for section 58109 of the revised title.