US maritime, port management, labour and safety figures will meet soon at the US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)’s Washington, DC headquarters to discuss its proposed new rules, issued last September, on the practice of VTL in all US seaports.
The proposals follows years of discussion between OSHA and all sides of the container ports industry (see, for example, WorldCargo News, August 1998, p1 and pp30- 31). In the meantime the practice of VTLs appears to have grown, in line with the imbalance in US trades as so many outbound containers are empties. More terminal operators and stevedores use VTL than admit to using it. Some others do not use it but want to....
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