US exporters' specious argument for delaying container weight regulations

For over 20 years, shippers have been legally obliged to declare the correct weight of the containers they have contracted shipping lines to carry – the fact that many routinely have not really ought to be a question of law enforcement.

After all, transgressors are hiding in plain sight; all the details are on the bills of lading and if there was accident with a container where the weight had been misdeclared, it ought to be relatively simply to find and ...