National awareness seminar by Shippers’ Academy Colombo
View(s):Effective July 1, 2016, any shipping container leaving from any port in the world must be accompanied by a shipping document signed either electronically or in hard copy by the shipper on the bill of lading listing the verified gross mass of a container in order to be loaded onto a ship.
The container weight mandate from the International Maritime Organization (IMO) under the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) convention comes after misdeclared weights contributed to maritime casualties such as the breakup and subsequent beaching of the MSC Napoli on the southern U.K. coast in 2007 and the partial capsizing of a feeder ship in the Spanish port of Algeciras in June, 2015, according to the Shippers Academy, Colombo.
To understand all these processes, the academy is organizing a seminar at the Sri Lanka Foundation, Colombo on April 28.
Experts will help delegates navigate through this complicated regulations that will affect the whole industry and provide unmatchable advice on SOLAS Chapter V1 Part A, Regulation 2 amendment which impacts 170 countries around the world.