PEMA focuses on VGM for student award

Intercomp, the US-based weighing technology system supplier, has installed its weigh-in-motion scales at a US intermodal rail terminal.

ICTSI has invested more than US$20M in IT at its flagship Manila International Container Terminal (MICT) in the last 10 years. 

Patrick Terminals in Australia is using technology to identify containers with a misdeclared Verified Gross Mass (VGM) and then weigh them correctly. But shippers and freight forwarders are not happy with the process or the fees Patrick is charging.

Strainstall is now operating under the new brand name of James Fisher Strainstall

With bulk cargo, maximum weights and even the capacity of the container itself are typically reached before a container is full. For both highway and ocean freight companies, this can mean overweight charges having to be paid.

Breakbulk Europe, the world’s largest event for the project cargo and breakbulk industry, opens its doors today at Messe Bremen in Bremen, Germany to an expected crowd of 11,000 from 120 countries