EP 1130-2-520
29 Nov 96
(1) LEASE/CHARTER: If Company A leases or charters the barge to Company B then
Company B is responsible for reporting the movements of the barge until the lease/charter
expires.
(2) INTERLINE MOVEMENT: A barge is towed from Minneapolis to Cairo by
Company A and from Cairo to New Orleans by Company B. Since Company A is the barge
owner, and the barge is not leased, Company A reports the entire movement of the barge with an
origin of Minneapolis and a destination of New Orleans.
(3) VESSEL SWAP/TRADE: Company A swaps barge with Company B to allow
Company B to meet a delivery commitment to New Orleans. Since Company A has not
leased/chartered the barge, Company A is responsible for filing the report. Company B is
responsible for filing the report on the barge which is traded to Company A. The swap or trade
will not affect the primary responsibility for reporting the individual vessel movements.
(4) RE-CONSIGNMENT: Barge is re-consigned to Mobile, Alabama. Company A
reports the movements as originating in Minneapolis and terminating in Mobile. The point from
which barge is re-consigned is not reported, only points of loading and unloading.
(5) FLEETING: Barge is deposited at a New Orleans fleeting area by Company A and
towed by Company B from the fleeting area to New Orleans area dock for unloading. Company
A, as barge owner, reports entire movements from Minneapolis to the unloading dock in New
Orleans. Company B does not report any barge movement.
f. Towboat Reporting. A towboat operated between fixed points may be reported in
terms of the total number of round trips completed during the month. For a towboat not operated
between fixed points, its movements are reported in each direction during the calendar month.
Note especially, however, that only those movements which have been completed in each
direction during the calendar month are to be reported for that month. To avoid crediting a
waterway with double the number of trips actually made, a towboat moving in a given direction
which has not reached its final or planned destination at the end of the month should not be
reported until the following month. For example, if a towboat traversed half the distance of a
waterway stretch by the end of January and was reported for January and then again picked up in
the February report for remainder of the stretch, two trips would be reported for this waterway
when actually only one trip occurred.
g. Reporting Forms.
(1) ENG Form 3925 - Vessel Operation Report. Statement of Freight and Passengers
Carried, submitted principally by operators of deep-draft vessels. The type of information
collected monthly on this form includes the following:
(a) VESSEL DATA
1 - TRIP NUMBER
2 - YEAR
3 - TYPE OF VESSEL
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