Club calls for action on box weighing

The TT Club has urged immediate action on box weighing, after welcoming recent World Shipping Council (WSC) guidelines on implementing impending Safety of Life at Sea Convention (SOLAS) requirements. It said, unlike the CTU Code, which forensically seeks to identify the chain of responsibility for everyone involved in the movement of freight, the amendment to SOLAS mandating the verification of gross mass of container overtly only names the “shipper”, the “master” and the “terminal representative”, and – by implication – the competent authorities.