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ESPO, FEPORT, CLECAT and ESC exhort the national authorities EU to adopt an approach coordinated on the weighing of the container
From the next 1° July it will be obligatory to communicate the weight before the boarding of the container on the ship
April 20, 2016
The association of Harbour Authorities European ESPO (European Sea Ports Organisation), the federation of private harbour terminalisti European FEPORT (Federation of European Private Port Operators) and the associations of the societies of shipment CLECAT and European Shippers' Council (ESC) has introduced today a combined declaration in which the measures for recepire the modifications introduced to convention SOLAS exhort the European national authorities to preserve parity of conditions in the market being implemented, as agreed in November 2014 in center IMO, that they impose that by the next 1° July is assessed the weight of the container before their boarding on the ships. The four organizations remember that after such date all shippers, that is the part named in the bill of lading of the oceanic carrier, will have to in advance declare to the carrier the verified weight of the containers.
ESPO, FEPORT, CLECAT and ESC invite therefore the national authorities "to assume with urgency an action coordinated" in absence of which "they will determine a distortion of the competition and meaningful interruptions of the operation of the logistic chain". According to the four organizations, it is in fact indispensable that, "in order to assure that the performance of the new dispositions does not create a distortion of the competition through a mosaic of varied national measures, the Member States must pursue an European approach coordinate bond, taking into consideration the lines guides national of other Member States when they must decide on the national norms".
Between the exhortations advanced from ESPO, FEPORT, CLECAT and ESC are also that to define acceptable limits of tolerance for the weighing instruments. For the four organizations, "it is important that before on July 1°, 2016 the national authorities communicate the accepted level of tolerance for the equipment of weighing used in order to emit and, where necessary, to verify a declaration VGM", that is the document that will certify the verified gross mass of the container.
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The association of Harbour Authorities European ESPO (European Sea Ports Organisation), the federation of private harbour terminalisti European FEPORT (Federation of European Private Port Operators) and the associations of the societies of shipment CLECAT and European Shippers' Council (ESC) has introduced today a combined declaration in which the measures for recepire the modifications introduced to convention SOLAS exhort the European national authorities to preserve parity of conditions in the market being implemented, as agreed in November 2014 in center IMO, that they impose that by the next 1° July is assessed the weight of the container before their boarding on the ships. The four organizations remember that after such date all shippers, that is the part named in the bill of lading of the oceanic carrier, will have to in advance declare to the carrier the verified weight of the containers.
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