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CTU Code compliance campaign launched

News30 Mar 2017

The TT Club is calling on the supply chain to embrace the CTU code for packing and handling containers....

News9 Jan 2017

Including international shipping in European system could undermine global efforts to cut GHGE, says IMO secretary-general Kitack Lim...

News5 Jul 2016

There have been no reports of disruption caused by the requirement for containers to have a verified gross mass before loading from 1 July....

News28 Jun 2016

The IMO has issued a reminder that the requirement for a packed container to have a verified gross mass before it can be loaded on a vessel ...

News24 May 2016

Following a session in London the IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) is to issue a circular calling for “practical and pragmatic” e...

News7 Mar 2016

A remark by the U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Paul Thomas that SOLAS places no legal obligation on shippers in respect of the Verified Gross...

News3 Mar 2016

The IMO has made it crystal clear that verified container weights are mandatory after 1 July and there will be no extension of time for the ...

News22 Feb 2016

The US Coast Guard has told American shippers that it will not delay implementation of the SOLAS Chapter VI amendment requiring containers t...

News7 Jul 2014

This alliance of shipping lines is aimed at ensuring robust enforcement of SECA bunker regulations...

News23 Jun 2014

Bill Brassington of ETS Consulting outlines imminent changes to the International Convention for Safe Containers (CSC)....

News28 May 2014

While various trade bodies have congratulated IMO for adopting the amendment to SOLAS, both the IAPH and BIFA have made interesting statemen...

News12 May 2014

New orders for STS and yard crane spreaders received in 1Q/2014 were 20% up, in unit terms, on the figure for 1Q/2013...

News1 Apr 2008

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO)’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) convened its 57th meeting in London early t...

News1 May 2007

Container lashing technology has not evolved at the same rapid pace as ship design. The growing disparity is beginning to compromise the saf...

News1 Aug 2006

Shipping companies may soon have to pay to use the Malacca Strait as nations along one of the world’s busiest waterways look for ways to s...