Fonasba confirmation that many nations are not ready to the performance of the norm on the weighing of the container



Fonasba, the federation to which is under responsibility the national associations of the marine agents and broker, has been profitable notices the results of an own second verification of the state of performance of the measures for recepire the modifications to convention SOLAS for the safeguard of the life in sea that introduce it obligation from the next 1° July at the expense of the shippers of assessment of the verification of the weight of the container before their cargo on the ship.

Fonasba has confirmed that to single three months from the expiration the differentiated situation is a lot between beyond 50 nations to which the associations belong that take part of the federation and have emphasized that of particular interest in this phase it is the fact that eighteen associations have confirmed that in their nations up to now some type of line is not supplied guide of practical application of the norm and that such situation is in some cases been profitable still more critic from the lacked nomination by the governments the which charged authority to certify and to approve of the method of weighing of the containers.

Fonasba has specified that, about the methods of weighing of the container, many nations assert that if Method 1, that it previews the weighing of the container after their packaging with the employment of bridge hanging, is considered is used for a meaningful percentage of all the declarations, reports moreover that the bridge hung ones necessary in order to reach this objective is little and often in precarious conditions and that the cost of varied weighing considerable from a survey to free character until an expense of 200 euros. Moreover the survey realized from Fonasba evidences that in the same way for Method 2, that previews the weighing of the goods contained in the container and the sum of such result to the weight of the tare of the container, in many cases is not assumed some provision in order to guarantee that the procedure restricted or is executed in conformity with prescription SOLAS.

"It is amazing - it has commented John Foord Fics, designated president of Fonasba and president of the Liner Committee & Port Agency of the federation - than shortly before the implementation of the norm a meaningful number of nations is not up to now successful to assume initiatives on a national level in order to assure that the necessary measures are placed in existence in time. Amendment SOLAS - Fics has remembered - has been in phase of preparation near the International Maritime Organization for four years, for who it is alarming that in this last phase in many nations agents, shippers and loaders they still do not have of lines guides adapted on as compying to the norm". Ficsa has evidenced that, "as supporters of the accurate verification of the weight of the container since its initial proposal, the associates of the Fonasba have been proattivi in working with the national authorities and with the entire one supply chain in order to do so as that the measures came in existence located in due time and therefore - has observed - is frustrating that in some nations little progresses are completed or they are not completed any at all".

"This - it has concluded Fics - is one of the more important developments in the field of the marine transports after the same introduction of the container and is elevated the risks of meaningful ill services beginning from the 1 ° July, or also before if of some containers in transfer. The navigation companies are convinced that by that date the containers introduced for the cargo without a certification of the verified gross mass will not be loaded on board with their ships and that this will not happen any will be the position of the loaders or, in some cases, of the national authorities".