33 C.F.R. § 402.3 Interpretation.
Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters
In this tariff, (a) Bulk cargo means cargo consisting of goods, loose or in mass, that generally must be shoveled, pumped, blown, scooped or forked in the handling and includes: (1) Cement, loose or in sacks; (2) Coke and petroleum coke, loose or in sacks; (3) Domestic cargo; (4) Liquids carried in vessels' tanks; (5) Ores and minerals (crude, screened, sized or concentrated, but not otherwise processed) loose or in sacks, including alumina, bauxite, coal, gravel, phosphate rock, sand, stone and sulphur; (6) Pig iron and scrap metals; (7) Lumber, pulpwood, poles and logs, loose or bundled; (8) Raw sugar, flour, loose or in sacks; (9) Wood pulp, loose or in bales; and (10) Material for recycling, scrap material, refuse and waste. (b) Cargo means all goods aboard a vessel whether carried as revenue or non-revenue freight or carried for the vessel owner, but does not include: (1) Empty containers and the tare weight of loaded containers; (2) Ships' fuel, ballast or stores; (3) The personal effects of crew or passengers; or (4) In transit cargo that is carried both upbound and downbound in the course of the same voyage. (c) Containerized cargo means cargo shipped in a container that is enclosed, permanent, reusable, nondisposable, weather tight. (d) Corporation means the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation. (e) Domestic cargo means cargo the shipment of which originates at one Canadian point and terminates at another Canadian point, or originates at one United States point and terminates at another United States point, but does not include import or export cargo designated at the point of origin for transshipment by water at a point in Canada or in the United States. (f) General cargo means other than bulk cargo, grain, government aid cargo, steel slabs and coal. (g) Government aid cargo means: (1) Processed food products that are donated by, or the purchase of which has been financed on concessional terms by, the federal government of the United States or Canada for the purposes of nutrition, economic development, emergency, or disaster relief programs; and (2) Food cargo that is: (i) Owned or financed by a non-profit organization or cooperative; (ii) Intended for use in humanitarian or development assistance overseas; and (iii) Stamped or otherwise shown to have been declared as such to that is certified by the customs service of the United States or Canada. (h) Grain means barley, corn, oats, flaxseed, rapeseed, soybeans, field crop seeds, buckwheat, dried beans, dried peas, rye, wheat, grain screenings or meal from those grains. (i) Manager means the St.Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation. (j) Metric ton means 1,000 kilograms (2204.62 pounds). (k) New cargo—MLO Section means either containerized cargo or cargo which has not moved through the MLO Section in an average annual amount, over the navigation seasons 2001–2002–2003, greater than 10,000 metric tons. (l) New cargo—Welland Canal means either containerized cargo or cargo which has not moved through the Welland Canal in an average annual amount, over the navigation seasons 2001–2002–2003, greater than 10,000 metric tons. (m) Passenger means a person being transported through the Seaway who has paid a fare for passage. (n) Pleasure craft means a vessel, however propelled, that is used exclusively for pleasure and does not carry passengers. (o) Seaway includes all facilities and services authorized under Public Law 358, 83rd Congress, May 13, 1954, enacted by the Congress of the United States, as amended, (33 U.S.C. 981, et seq.) and the meaning ascribed to it under the Canada Marine Act. (p) Vessel (“ship” in Canada) means every type of craft used as a means of transportation on water, except a vessel owned or employed by the Manager or the Corporation. [66 FR 15329, Mar. 16, 2001, as amended at 71 FR 14807, Mar. 24, 2006]
Title 33: Navigation and Navigable Waters
PART 402—TARIFF OF TOLLS
§ 402.3 Interpretation.
