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IMO fails to move container weighing proposal

· Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Key Takeaways:

A working group reached a compromise and recommended that the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) Convention be amended to require that loaded container weights be verified, but was “derailed” by some IMO members

Chris Dupin

Chris Dupin has written about trade and transportation and other business subjects for a variety of publications before joining American Shipper and Freightwaves.