IMO Approves SOLAS Amendments for Container Weight Verification
The International Maritime organization’s Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) has approved long-awaited changes to the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) convention that will require container weight verification as a condition for loading packed export containers aboard ships.
Misdeclared container weights have been a long-standing problem for the transportation industry and for governments as they present safety hazards for ships, their crews, other cargo on board, workers in the port facilities handling containers, and on roads. Misdeclaration of container weights also gives rise to Customs concerns.
The approved changes will enter into force in July 2016 upon final adoption by the MSC in November 2014.
The World Shipping Council (WSC), whose members represent about 90 percent of global containership capacity, has been a leading advocate for the container weight verification requirements and has worked cooperatively with the IMO for over seven years to see them materialize. WSC has also participated in the group of experts that developed the new CTU Code.
Source：gCaptain
DATE：2014.5.20
国际海事组织将设立集装箱重量核实的规则
在新确认的海上人命安全SOLAS公约变更中，托运人将自2016年7月起必须将其集装箱重量进行核实。该措施希望减少在海上、港口和公路上的事故。IMO的海事安全委员会希望自11月起采用确认的变更条款,以帮助供应链参与者以及SOLAS公约签约政府理解怎样实行集装箱重量检验。SOLAS公约要求所有集装箱要么被称重以确认托运人描述的重量正确，要么采用第二种"计算"的方式来核实，该方式下，托运人将所有物品称重并合计重量。第二种方式被认为是业界表示不是每个托运人都有对集装箱称重的设备或经济能力的折衷方法。尽管规则是为了提高整个航运链中各阶段的安全性，但承运人仍然对规则是否足够唤起在装箱、封箱，以及托运人真正理解一些标准不被满足所带来的风险的严重性的一种风气的转变。
来源:gCaptain
日期：2014年5月20日
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