Anybody can stuff a container... can't they?

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At the recent Multimodal event at the NEC, Birmingham, Andrew McNab, marketing director at Maritime Transport, highlighted the daily problems faced by his drivers from transporting badly loaded boxes on the roads to and from the ports.

He said one rollover incident had occurred just 600 yards from a dock gate, and the cause was found to be that the shipper had packed heavier cargo on top of light cargo in the container, rendering the load totally unstable.

Other examples of cargo ...