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Under-declaration of container weights, or unsafe loading, has been responsible for many serious truck accidents, and was implicated in the sinking of the MSC Napoli in 2007.
A new UN code of practice, requiring container weights to be verified before shipping, will come into force in July 2016.
If the issue sounds dull and procedural, it is nothing of the kind. Under-declaration of container weights, or unsafe loading, has been responsible for many serious truck accidents, and was implicated in the sinking of the MSC Napoli in 2007.
Speakers at the recent Multimodal exhibition in Birmingham said better information about box contents could have averted a fire on board the MSC Flaminia (pictured) in 2012, which claimed three lives, as well as last year’s fire on the Maersk Kampala.The new regulation is relevant and critical to the entire supply chain, prompting the speakers to question why they were addressing so many empty seats.
Peregrine Storrs-Fox, risk management director for the TT Club, said two-thirds of cargo claims could be attributed to poor container packing or misdeclaration of weight.
“Any one container can have a huge impact on lots...
Cargo containers filled with goods from toys to electronics are piling up on Manila’s docks as a rush-hour truck ban threatens to dent growth in the Philippines, Southeast Asia’s fastest-expanding economy.
Incoming cargo boxes have lingered at International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICT)’s 100-hectare port facility an average of 10 days — up from the usual six — since Mayor Joseph Estrada declared the ban in February, Christian Gonzalez, the company’s regional head, said in an interview.
Estrada said he would suspend the ban for eight days, ending at noon May 20. The national government requested the moratorium because “the Port of Manila needs to be cleared of [the] heavy volume of containers in time for the World Economic Forum,” according to a statement posted on the City of Manila’s official website. The Geneva-based economic policy organization is
hosting an East Asia summit in the capital region from May 21 to May 23.
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Will Tracey, MUA’s Assistant Western Australia Secretary, said, ”Industrial action is always a last resort and we still hope that we can come to an agreement without having to take the action which has been sanctioned by the Fair Work Commission.”From the West Australian:
Mining giant BHP Billiton has denounced planned strike action by tugboat workers at Port Hedland, saying it will cost resource companies $100 million a day.
The Maritime Union of Australia’s WA branch announced Monday that deckhands working for Teekay Shipping had voted to take protected industrial action.
The move, which threatens to shut down exports out of Port Hedland by BHP, comes following failed negotiations between the MUA and Teekay over a new pay deal failed to reach agreement.
Port Hedland is Australia’s largest bulk export facility, shipping out almost 300 million tonnes of product, most of which was iron ore, in 2012-13.
The MUA’s assistant WA secretary, Will Tracey, said the main sticking points revolved around annual leave and pay.
The union is seeking to secure four weeks annual leave for deckhands, who currently get none, arguing it is an entitlement that...
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