World Shipping Council Provides Guidelines on Coming Container Weight Requirements
The World Shipping Council published guidelines meant to help shippers understand new international container weight verification rules, said the WSC (here). The rules, which obligate container weight verification before export (see 1501220011), come from the International Maritime Organization and…
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the amended International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea. Effective July 1, 2016, "the regulations place a requirement on the shipper of a packed container, regardless of who packed the container, to provide the container’s gross verified weight to the ocean carrier and port terminal representative sufficiently in advance of vessel loading to be used in the preparation of the ship stowage plan," WSC said. The vessel operator and the terminal operator are responsible for using the verified gross weights in vessel stow planning and must not load a packed container aboard a vessel for export without a verified gross weight," the WSC said in the guidelines.