Carrier of freight by water means any person who may be
Carrier of freight by water means any person who may be engaged or who may hold himself or herself out as willing to be engaged, whether as a common carrier, a contract carrier, or otherwise, except for carriage of liquid cargoes in bulk in tank vessels designed for use exclusively in that service or carriage by barge of bulk cargoes consisting of only a single commodity loaded or carried without wrappers or containers and delivered by the carrier without transportation mark or count, in the carriage of freight by water between any point in the port of New York district, as applicable only within the State of New Jersey, and a point outside that district.