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By Sam Whelan
Maersk Line is preparing an awareness campaign to alert shippers to container weighing regulations that come into effect on 1 July.
Amid confusion over the IMO’s guidelines for implementing the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) regulations, which state a verified gross mass (VGM) must be provided by shippers to shipping lines before a container is loaded, Maersk Line’s VGM programme manager Lars Lorenzen told The Loadstar the current state of industry readiness was in significant need of improvement.
“Unlike previous IMO regulations, the number ...
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Hariesh Manaadiar
February 08, 2016 at 2:59 pmI personally don’t think that even after several years of the notification of this regulation, the industry is ready for VGM..
I think everyone is playing the waiting game to see the first container being stopped from loading due to non receipt of the VGM documentation.. Then the scramble may start.. Let us see who will bell this cat..