Aeron Marine Shipping Co. v. United States

OPINION

LYDON, Senior Judge:

Plaintiffs, shipping companies, seek to recover fuel cost subsidies, under operating differential subsidy contracts they entered into with the Maritime Administration, De*950partment of Transportation (MarAd). Plaintiffs claim they are entitled to receive these subsidies under the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, as amended, 46 U.S.C.App. § 1173(b) (1970) (amended 1981). The litigation comes before the court on motions for summary judgment wherein plaintiffs challenge determinations by the Maritime Subsidy Board (Board) of the MarAd that they were not entitled to fuel cost…