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The verified gross mass (VGM) gremlins have been at it again: confusing and obfuscating shippers and their forwarders as they prepare for the SOLAS amendment to come into force on 1 July.
The latest example comes from no less than the International Maritime Organisation – the very body that wrote the SOLAS regulations, as well as the forthcoming amendment – which issued new VGM guidance this week on the issue of transhipment containers loaded before 1 July.
Here’s the problem: from 1 July, every container loaded on a ...
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