Congestion at box ports still plaguing Europe's inland waterways
Worsening weather can wreak havoc on inland container networks across northern Europe, leading to surcharges, ...
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“Disreputable” shippers are putting lives and the supply chain at risk when they fail to meet the basic safety standards in the Container Transport Units Code (CTU).
Some aspects of non-compliance in container packing had worsened since the 2014 CTU update, warned Richard Brough, technical advisor at the International Cargo Handling Co-ordination Association (ICHCA).
Mr Brough said there had been a near-30% upswing in shippers failing to mark and placard their containers correctly .
“In April 2015, we saw a 40ft container go up in ...
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ROGER LAKE KAGAN
March 08, 2017 at 1:26 pmAs a DGSA to over 70 companies, and our Company services over 350 companies in the UK, I am also a consultant to my old business Andersen Harvey Lake & Co now inside the AFWW Group. I currently have a client forwarder , who will not see the traffic he is sending after his client loads the box. The forwarder to his credit felt something was wrong , rang me , and asked me to intervene. As the Shipper was not a client, I charged £50 for an hours telephone and follow up email(still unpaid),the forwarder has no client, he has seemingly shipped the cargo from the UK unlabelled , unplacarded, and undeclared! Until regulatory agency’s such as MCA in the UK advise they are happy to follow up on such reported to them by a DGSA, the port activity or line ditto have no interest . I do not have the booking data to work out which line. Some years ago in Vancouver I did a presentation to the International Marine Underwriters Association on Dangerous Goods. Time for another one Perry ?