This guest post by Descartes' Eric Geerts on Transport Topics offers a look at the requirements behind the SOLAS container weight rule, current enforcement guidelines, and the best methods available to ensure compliance.
In this Supply & Demand Chain Executive article, Descartes' Eric Geerts discusses the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) legislation that requires containers and their contents to be weighed before loading.
Robert J. Bowman's article in SupplyChainBrain highlights confusion shippers are experiencing due to different interpretations of the new SOLAS regulation on the weighing of loaded containers at ports. Descartes' Eric Geerts is quoted in the article
Descartes' Eric Geerts has published an article on the Material Handling & Logistics news website, providing an explanation on the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) May 23rd memo on the SOLAS Container Weight Verification Requirement.
"The second filing deadline for U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s new electronic filing system came and went this past weekend without major issues. Still, Saturday’s deadline was only for a fraction of the total filers that will be required to