In the port of under way Genoa the second phase of the procedures for the transmission of the weight of the container



The Harbour Authority of Genoa has emitted the decree yesterday n. 3 that, as a result of the effectiveness 1°th July of the new Solas regulation, discipline more specifically the modalities than transmission of the data on the destined weight of the container to the export that reach in the harbour port of call of the capital of Liguria. The precise provision that "the containers will have to approach crosses of the terminals of boarding of the port of Genoa only advance transmission of data VGM ("Verified Gross Mass")", than for the container in arrival via truck "it is responsibility of the shipper to make to reach, also for through of the navigation company, to the terminalista data VGM within and not beyond the operation of acceptance of the hauler near the competent offices of the terminal" and that "to the aim of assures fluidity in the exchange of the information is not admitted VGM in paper form".

The precise decree, among other things, than "the attesting documentation the verified gross mass of the container must at least contain necessary the relative data to the identification of: shipper (and its of identification data); name and last name authorized person; number container; certifyd weight, used method, nodes of weighing and weighed certification of; date".

The genoese harbour agency considers that, with three thousand documents of weighing in average to the day in arrival in the port for the container in boarding, the first phase of performance of the new Solas rules has entered operatively. "Contained uneasiness and regular operations - it has emphasized the authority - have rewarded the long phase of preparation that the entire genoese harbour community to the job has seen on norms and procedures. Fifteen points of weighing are anticipate inside of the port, to integrate the capillary diffuse net outside from the city in order favouring the objective not to hog neither the city traffic neither the docks".

While, regarding the analogous procedures for the boarding of the container in the port of, strike of 50 hours of the which proclaimed road haulage is revoked in order on 7 August in order to protest for the problems caused own from the effectiveness of the norms on the weighing of the container in export. The revocation follows the subscription of a protocol of understanding between trade associations and the Harbour Authority spezzina that among other things previews the gate different location of access to the port according to the specific operations that must carry out the haulers, as for example the empty withdrawal of the container, let alone the implementation of the procedures of transmission of the data on-line.