US exporters' specious argument for delaying container weight regulations

12/02/2016

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 ...

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