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Confusion over weighing

News1 Dec 2015

A BIFA seminar in London indicates that there is confusion in the forwarding market about the new SOLAS Ch VI requirements...

News16 Sep 2015

Shippers are in for a rude awakening on 1st July 2106 when the SOLAS amendment takes effect and shipping lines will no longer be able to loa...

News1 May 2015

It is approaching six months since the new alliance structures shaping the east-west trades of the global liner shipping industry came into ...

News11 Feb 2015

Another report quotes the wildly inaccurate figure of the shipping industry losing “10,000” containers at sea a year....

News1 Aug 2014

A World Shipping Council (WSC) survey shows the number of containers lost at sea annually is significantly exaggerated in the media....

News20 Sep 2013

The DSC/18 meeting in London has resolved to amend SOLAS to require verification of container weights, but stopped short of introducing mand...

News10 Apr 2013

Following its post-DSC/17 workshop in London last October, ICHCA will convene another one on 16 April, which it says will be the last opport...

News1 Mar 2013

As a matter of iron logic, if progress is to be made on mandatory, pre-shipment container weighing, port operators have to be involved....

News1 Sep 2012

Can verifying the weight of containers before they are loaded be achieved without unduly disrupting terminal operations?...

News1 Feb 2012

Although it is looking increasingly likely that US requirements for 100% scanning of all US-bound containers will be watered down, if not sc...

News24 Dec 2011

Three US trade bodies have advised the Federal Maritime Commission that while the Harbor Maintenance Tax ( may be one factor that has led to...

News1 Feb 2011

A number of systems and applications are available to terminal operators as shipping lines call for mandatory weighing....

News8 Dec 2010

Two shipowner organisations have called for mandatory weighing of containers before they are loaded on board...

News1 Apr 2009

Following the introduction of new US legislation in late 2008 requiring all US-bound import containers to be fitted with a high-strength mec...

News1 May 2007

ISO/PAS 17712, covering the production/use of mechanical container security seals, is set to be ratified this year....