News / No going back now on new container weighing regulations, says IMO

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The IMO’s senior deputy director for marine technology and cargoes, maritime safety division, Joseph Westwood-Booth, told a packed audience at the ICHCA conference in Barcelona yesterday he wanted to make it “perfectly clear” that there would be “no delays” to the SOLAS amendment on VGM (verified gross mass) determination for containers.

With less than 120 days to go before mandatory container weighing verification before shipment comes into force in 170 countries, the issue was the subject of considerable debate on the ...