SOLAS container weighing rules create $4bn industry – and 'blatant profiteering'
This year’s implementation of the verified gross mass (VGM) amendment to the SOLAS [Safety of ...
The Hy-weigh solution
As the deadline for shippers to deliver the verified gross mass of their export containers to their shipping line draws ever closer, two portable weighing solutions have been introduced by technology firms.
In some jurisdictions, ports have stepped into what is rapidly becoming a yawning breach of weighing capacity and informed local exporters that they will offer container weighing solutions either at terminal gates or within terminal grounds.
However, other jurisdictions, such as New Zealand, say their ports will not accept a container ...
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Mike
May 18, 2016 at 5:59 pmSo…….. this weights a containers that’s on the floor. What about when its on the chassis? — how many exporters keep containers on the floor without chassis?
Just use the Tare weight of the container– and a scale to weight the cargo your loading on the container. Weight of cargo + Tare weight of container = VGM
Gavin van Marle
May 19, 2016 at 9:10 amHello Mike,
The new Bison Jacks solution is designed to weigh the container when it’s on the chassis for precisely the reason you raise. I wouldn’t normally do someone else’s marketing for them, but given the increasing urgency of the situation, here’s a video of how it works: http://www.bison-jacks.com/c-legs/
You are perfectly right though – Method 2 is equally simple
Thanks,
Gavin
Mike
May 19, 2016 at 3:38 pmGavin,
Thanks for that clarification. The picture in the article made it seem that you had to do it from the floor.
The link provides a much better picture of what this is capable of doing.
Gavin van Marle
May 20, 2016 at 9:57 amTo be honest, the fault probably lies with me and my limited powers of explication!