U.S. Commission Ready to Help E.E.C. Formulate Transport Plans
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FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
FULL co-operation based on the trans-. port experience of the .U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission has been offered to the E.E.C. (Such a move was foreseen in The Commercial Motor if January, 11.) This was stated" by Mr. R. M. Murphy. president of the U.S. Commission, at a Press conference in Luxembourg on -Tuesday which followed a meeting between a delegation of U.S. transport specialists and members of the transport committee of the European Parliament. The Commission was in Luxembourg at the invitation of M. Albert Coppe. vice-president of the E.E.C. High Authority. The American group, among whom on this occasion was Mr. C. Martin, U.S. Under-Secretary of State for Transport, is making a study tour of E.E.C. countries.
Mr. Murphy added that for all types of transport the American system was based on the principle of non-discrimination and the publication of transport rates.
Answering questions, Mr. Murphy declared: "I do not think that our transport system has weakness as regards the rates publication and non-discrimination. It is of course possible that economic developments may make certain minor changes in transport legislation necessary. But these changes will never touch the fundamental principle of publication of transport rates".
Answering another question he stressed that the problems of financing the infrastructure of transport were outside his Commission's jurisdiction. These problems were being intensively studied in the United States, and he did not have the impression that there existed in the U.S. any discrimination resulting from different treatment of various transport operations with regard to financing of the means of transport.
"During today's meeting we have tried to make the Furopeap parliamentarians share the U.S. experience of an equitable and non-discriminatory transport tariff system. Our Commission is ready to .help Europe achieve a transport system .fairly similar to ours ".Mr.' Murphy added: ,