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Bimco, IAPH, ICS and WSC speed up the IMO to adopt the compromise solution on the control of the weight of the container
"It is time - they have emphasized - to resolve the problem"
September 4, 2013
The four main international organizations of the marine-harbour field, the shipowning associations Bimco and World Shipping Council (WSC), the association of the ports International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) and the association of the marine industry International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), have sped up the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to adopt the compromise solution on the control of the weight of the container yield of long negotiations that are reached by 15 industrial governments and 13 groups and that it will be taken in consideration from the subcommittee on the goods dangerous, solid cargos and the container of the IMO that will meet to London to half of this month. According to the four associations, in fact, "it is imperative that the IMO adopts requirement of verification of the proposed weight of the container without ulterior delays". "It is time - they have found - to resolve the problem. It is time that the IMO adopts the solution that it has of forehead".
Bimco, IAPH, ICS and WSC have emphasized that the erroneous declaration of the weight of the containers used in the marine transport constitutes a hoary problem is for the field that for the governmental institutions and that such erroneous declarations place to risk safety of the ships, of their crews, the other goods on board, of the harbour workers and the road haulage. Moreover the roved declaration facilitates the phenomenon of the illegal escape of the rates and the customs duties and hinders the effectiveness of the action of the customs authorities in executing an accurate risk assessment for safety of cargos.
The four associations have evidenced that the norms in matter of the IMO are devoid and that, in particular, international convention SOLAS already demand to the loaders to supply a correct declaration of the weight of the cargo, but the current dispositions are not applied and turn out ineffective. Bimco, IAPH, ICS and WSC have remembered that the governmental institutions and the organizations of the marine field that have participated to the negotiations in center IMO have agreed that the way in order to resolve this problem is that to demand that the weight of a container is verified before its boarding on a ship. Bimco, IAPH, ICS and WSC have specified that the compromise proposal previews two methods in order to verify the weight of the container, but that all the used methods must allow a reliable verification of the weight.
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The four main international organizations of the marine-harbour field, the shipowning associations Bimco and World Shipping Council (WSC), the association of the ports International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) and the association of the marine industry International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), have sped up the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to adopt the compromise solution on the control of the weight of the container yield of long negotiations that are reached by 15 industrial governments and 13 groups and that it will be taken in consideration from the subcommittee on the goods dangerous, solid cargos and the container of the IMO that will meet to London to half of this month. According to the four associations, in fact, "it is imperative that the IMO adopts requirement of verification of the proposed weight of the container without ulterior delays". "It is time - they have found - to resolve the problem. It is time that the IMO adopts the solution that it has of forehead".
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
